5th March Potter pick up problem


 Let's be honest it's a mistake anyone can make. I mean one kid dressed up as Harry Potter look very much like another kid dressed up as Harry Potter. Especially if you are late because your Pilates class overran. So imagine the suprise following World Book Day on Thursday when 38yr old Melissa Tompkins arrived back home to the leafy suburbs of Hucknall to discover she had picked up the wrong child from the school gates.

"I thought he looked a bit quite when I bundled him into the back of my Datsun Cherry," Melissa explained, "but I just put it down to the excitememnt of the day to be honest. Then during tea when he started to claim he didn't eat sausages because he was a vegetarian, well I thought it was just another foodie fad he had picked up from one of his classmates that would soon pass the hungrier he got. And thinking about it now he was a lot bigger then when I'd dropped him off at school that morning but we all know children go through sudden growth spurts."

"It was only when I was getting him ready for a bath which seemed to scare the living daylights out of him and I took of his cloak, hat and glassed that I realised it wasn't my Brian at all but some kid I have never seen called Terry. I tried to get him to talk sense but he just kept mumbling in what sounded like Latin as if he was casting some sort of spell."

"Finally I found he had a mobile in his school bag and was able to give his Mum a ring and explain that I hadn't kidnappped her son and was not demanding a ransom. Strangley she sounded quite calm about the whole thing and replied that as my Brian was such a lovely quiet boy would we mind keeping her Terry for the weekend and possibly for ever. She even said that she would pay us to do it."

"Personally I blame Brian myself. If only he had worn that homemade Gangster Grannnie costume I knitted none of this would ever have happened."


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