{"id":4825,"date":"2022-08-13T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2023-03-24T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:43:08","slug":"tales-from-the-town-69-the-childrens-court-first-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2022\/08\/13\/tales-from-the-town-69-the-childrens-court-first-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #70: The Children’s Court (first session)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Topic:<\/strong> The Lodger And How Awful He Is And What We Know He’s Done So Far<\/em>
\nAttendees:<\/strong> Claire, Ethel, Tina, Daniel, a doll, some dogs
\nLocation:<\/strong> The Hollow On The Hill
\nEvidence To Be Presented:<\/strong> (verbal admissions only)
\nAmbience:<\/strong> Grasshoppers, contrails<\/p>\n

Claire:<\/strong> …and he filled the freezer up with bread and I hate him. (pause)<\/em> That’s the end of my evidence against the lodger. Oh and he broke the swing, remember?
\nTina:<\/strong> That was ages ago.
\nEthel:<\/strong> And he apologised.
\nClaire:<\/strong> What’s that<\/em> got to do with anything? It’s still a crime. So who’s next? Daniel?
\nDaniel:<\/strong> He’s been trying to steal my dreams.
\nEthel:<\/strong> What?
\nTina: <\/strong>How?
\nDaniel:<\/strong> I dreamt he was asleep and dreaming he was me and when I asked him to stop he said no.
\nClaire:<\/strong> That doesn’t even make any sense.
\nEthel:<\/strong> It does.
\nClaire:<\/strong> It doesn’t. Which makes it even worse<\/strong>. (pause)<\/em> <\/em>Good evidence Daniel.
\nTina:<\/strong> I think he stole my poetry book.
\nClaire:<\/strong> No one stole your poetry book. It was exactly where I said it would be! In that drawer in your bedroom that you forgot to look in before for some reason!
\nTina:<\/strong> Well, maybe he put it back there. Anyway, I still think he stole it. He definitely looked at it.
\nClaire:<\/strong> That’s not evidence. That’s supposition.
\nTina:<\/strong> Well it’s better than insinuation<\/em>.
\nClaire:<\/strong> It’s not!
\nEthel:<\/strong> So why do you think the lodger stole your poetry book, Tina?
\nTina:<\/strong> He quoted one of my poems back to me.
\nClaire:<\/strong> What does that prove?
\nTina:<\/strong> My poems are a secret!
\nClaire:<\/strong> That’s stupid. Secret poems might as well not even exist.
\nTina:<\/strong> Well now they exist and I don’t like it.
\nClaire:<\/strong> I hope Ethel’s evidence is better than that!
\nEthel:<\/strong> It is! (pause)<\/em> Wait, I mean, it’s exactly as compelling as that, Tina.
\nTina:<\/strong> Thank you!
\nEthel:<\/strong> So anyway… the lodger has been spying on Anna and Oya!
\nTina:<\/strong> What? That’s awful!
\nEthel:<\/strong> I know! And even worse, he’s been passing off Anna’s opinions as his own!
\nClaire:<\/strong> How’s that worse?
\nEthel:<\/strong> They’re her thoughts, Claire! Not his! It’s plagiarism.
\nTina:<\/strong> Plagiarism of the mind.
\nClaire:<\/strong> Maybe she’s passing off his opinions as HERS!
\nEthel:<\/strong> She wouldn’t!
\nClaire:<\/strong> She would!
\nEthel:<\/strong> Whose side are you on Claire? I thought you hated the lodger! I bet he’s never even read a book! Anna’s read loads<\/em> of them!
\nClaire:<\/strong> I do hate him. But that doesn’t mean I should just believe anything you say about him. This is a court of law!
\nEthel:<\/strong> Why can’t you agree with anyone, Claire? Just once. Please.
\nClaire:<\/strong> Because I’m right and you’re wrong! (pause)<\/em> Although actually this time I do agree with you, Ethel. Because no one would pretend to have opinions as awful as his. Not even stupid old Anna!
\nEthel:<\/strong> Stop being mean to Anna, Claire!
\nClaire:<\/strong> No! This is all her fault. If she hadn’t fallen in love with Oya and made Oya move out of her room and into Anna’s room then Mum wouldn’t have needed a new lodger and then the new lodger wouldn’t have moved in to the new rooms and the new rooms would still be empty and I could have moved into one of them instead and had it all to myself instead of having to sleep in the same room as all of you!<\/p>\n

(silence)<\/em><\/p>\n

Tina:<\/strong> What are we arguing about again?
\nClaire:<\/strong> EVERYTHING!<\/p>\n

The court was adjourned until the afternoon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written on 22nd May, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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