My best buddy, Leelabelle Magillicutty, was sitting at her sewing machine putting the finishing touches on a quirky little throw pillow for her daughter when all of the sudden her son, Seraphim, came into the room and just stood there. She glanced towards him and noticed that his eyes were a bit puffy and watery and his nose looked swollen and red.
She swung her chair around and asked “You okay buddy? What happened?”
“You’re gonna be mad,” he replied while staring at his feet.
“Honey, what happened? Mommy won’t get mad if you tell the truth.”
“Welllllll, I had this reeeeally awesome piece of gum and and it tasted really, reeeeeally good and and I wanted to smell it because it tasted so good and so I took it out of my mouth and I smelled it and and now I can’t get reach it,” he frantically rambled while shuffling his feet.
“Tell Mommy where it is and I’ll get it for you.”
He glanced up and pointed to his left nostril. “I can’t reach it.”
She gently pulled her son to her lap and to take a look-see up Seraphin’s nose.
No gum.
She set off for the laundry room to grab her handy-dandy flashlight, shined it up Seraphim’s nose and saw a T-I-N-Y little corner of a chewed piece of gum lodged so far up the kid’s nose that she was afraid not even a pair of surgical gloves, a chisel, a suction cup and tweezers would be able to retrieve the damn thing.
A panic attack, visions of a bill from the ambulance service that had to come pick the two of them up because the tweezers became lodged in Seriphim’s brain, a bloody nose, and an hour later….success. Look how BIG that piece of gum was!
She swung her chair around and asked “You okay buddy? What happened?”
“You’re gonna be mad,” he replied while staring at his feet.
“Honey, what happened? Mommy won’t get mad if you tell the truth.”
“Welllllll, I had this reeeeally awesome piece of gum and and it tasted really, reeeeeally good and and I wanted to smell it because it tasted so good and so I took it out of my mouth and I smelled it and and now I can’t get reach it,” he frantically rambled while shuffling his feet.
“Tell Mommy where it is and I’ll get it for you.”
He glanced up and pointed to his left nostril. “I can’t reach it.”
She gently pulled her son to her lap and to take a look-see up Seraphin’s nose.
No gum.
She set off for the laundry room to grab her handy-dandy flashlight, shined it up Seraphim’s nose and saw a T-I-N-Y little corner of a chewed piece of gum lodged so far up the kid’s nose that she was afraid not even a pair of surgical gloves, a chisel, a suction cup and tweezers would be able to retrieve the damn thing.
A panic attack, visions of a bill from the ambulance service that had to come pick the two of them up because the tweezers became lodged in Seriphim’s brain, a bloody nose, and an hour later….success. Look how BIG that piece of gum was!
God I love that kid!
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