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Overheard

Overheard the following when I was out at the nature-ish part of the Museum of Art in Austin.


Two women with two moderately sweet looking children, probably aged 4 or 5. Women may have been mothers or kidnappers.

Woman: shall we go down to the trail?

Children and other woman, annoyingly in unison: ‘Yaaay’

Woman: Do you think we?ll see some dinosaurs?

Children: ‘Yaaay’

Me: Of course you won?t see any bloody dinosaurs. Not unless you?re all tripping on hallucinogenics. In which case, also look out for the dragons and Merlin.

I may not have said this in a sufficiently loud voice for them to hear.

I am a mean and grumpy old woman.