She’d Be Swelling With Pride
AUSTRALIA, CHILDREN, CURRENT EVENTS, HOSPITAL, VICTORIA | HEALTHY | MARCH 9, 2021
I’m at the hospital.
Little Boy: “Why aren’t you wearing a mask?”
Me: “Oh, hi, kid. The masks don’t fit me right now. Can you go back to your mum? I can’t talk well right now.”
Little Boy: “Mummy says that everyone has to wear a mask.”
Me: “Normally she’d be right, but the doctor has given me special permission just this once.”
Little Boy: “But Mummy says that people who don’t wear masks are selfish b*****ds.”
Me: “Go back to your mummy and I’m sure she’ll explain it. I can’t fit into the masks right now.”
Little Boy: “Why not?”
Me: “Because my face is all swollen up, see?”
Little Boy: “Isn’t that what you normally look like?”
Me: “No?”
Little Boy: “Oh, all right, then.”
In the mother’s defence, the woman he wandered back to was trying to comfort a little girl with a lot of blood on her face. I think she was a bit preoccupied to realise what had happened.
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