“Mum! Claire keeps saying rude words!” Ethel said.<\/p>\n
“I don’t!” Claire said.<\/p>\n
“You do!” Tina said. <\/p>\n
“Well, yes, I do! But I don’t care!” Claire said. “All I said was that Tina’s stupid car game was a load of old crap.”<\/p>\n
“Claire you shouldn’t say things like that,” Agnes said. “You know Tina likes that car game.”<\/p>\n
“Actually, it is kind of rubbish,” Tina said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t even know what we’re doing most of the time,” Ethel said.<\/p>\n
“Oh,” Agnes said. “So why are you upset with Claire then.”<\/p>\n
“Cause she said…” Tina said. “She said that rude word Mum!”<\/p>\n
“Daniel might have heard!” Ethel said.<\/p>\n
“I was an aeroplane,” Daniel said. “And then I was the dolls’ best friend.” He looked at the cat to make sure she wasn’t jealous. “And then I was a spaceship.”<\/p>\n
“See?” Claire said. “Spaceship’s don’t get upset by rude words.”<\/p>\n
“Not even intelligent spaceships,” Daniel said, nodding sagely. <\/p>\n
“Well, I’m glad this has all been sorted out,” Agnes said. “Also I didn’t even realise crap was<\/strong> a rude word.”<\/p>\n “Mum!<\/em>” Tina and Ethel gasped, utterly shocked, as Daniel ran from the room screaming.<\/p>\n __________<\/p>\n Notes:<\/p>\n 1. Written on July 28th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br> “Mum! Claire keeps saying rude words!” Ethel said. “I don’t!” Claire said. “You do!” Tina said. “Well, yes, I do! But I don’t care!” Claire said. “All I said was that Tina’s stupid car game was a load of old crap.” “Claire you shouldn’t say things like that,” Agnes said. “You know Tina likes that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1500,1501,1209],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-rudeness","tag-swearing","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my patreon<\/a> or my ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br>Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"