Emma Says...

Emma comes home from school yesterday with the alarming news that someone is tellin' LIES about her and startin' rumors! Momma bear is ready for the worst. I am remembering the days of my youth when my dad took me to school in his bread truck and small mutants other kids would tease me and say that I lived in the trailer of the truck. Why did this mortify me to such a degree? These were the kids who had ear wax leftover from their infancy and never ever had sweet notes in their lunchboxes from their momma's like I did. Come to think of it, I don't even know if they had lunchboxes.....or mommas.

Still, somehow their opinion counted. So on this day, I am ready and emotionally engaged as Emma shares her woes.

---pause---deep sigh & said with increasing volume, "So-And-So is telling Hoo-Dee-Hoo that I tuck up into my handstand when I do my handstand, forward roll, pike press-up!!!!!---pause---deep sigh

I wait for the sucker-punch. Where's the *below-the-belt* cut down? They didn't say anything about yo' momma or your last name??? Oh well, I guess this is......

"Tumblin' Trash Talk" at it's best.