Scene: driving home from Salem, Massachusetts. We had just taken a tour of The House of the Seven Gables.
Me (thinking over the iron teakettle we'd just seen that weighed 25 lbs. empty): I'd have made a really sucky Colonial woman, what with my bad back and all.
Daddy Shortbread: True.
Me (musing): Of course, I'd probably have died in childbirth, so there wouldn't have been too many years of kettle-lifting for me anyway.
Daddy Shortbread: Oh, hon. They'd have burned you at the stake LONG before you'd made it to childbirth.
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That made me giggle. I'd be witch on the next stake over.
LOL I'm sorry, that just cracked me right up! It kinda snuck up on me.
I just guffawed out load. Pete's looking at me oddly.
Daddy Shortbread tells it like it is, doesn't he? :)
What I meant was, she is far too independent of mind to have been tolerated in 1600s Salem.
Oooo, oooo, witchy woman...
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