A Curious Girl: Minnie Mouse Ears

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I wore the Minnie Mouse ears to school. I wore them on the first bus, to see if I could cheer some people up. (Clive said I was just trying to get attention! That was just an added bonus :-) ). The bus driver didn't comment. Some secondary school kids laughed and one told me I had guts. After that? A couple of smiles. But you'd think from the reactions that they'd thought I hadn't noticed I looked like a lunatic. Everyone politely averted their eyes. Do we live in a strait-jacket society or what? I was determined to wear them in chemistry. If they didn't get a funny quote from Mr JE, I don't know what will. Quite a few people asked me why I was wearing them. Temporarily swapped with Sara at break and she had to ask me how I got away without the laughs and teasing. Maybe it's because she looks sane, and I've quite obvious cracked :-) But actually, everyone who commented in the Sixth Form seemed to think that wearing Minnie Mouse ears was cool. I take it that the ones who didn't comment thought it was plain madness. As for Mr. JE, he merely asked coolly, 'Why the Mickey Mouse headgear?' As if there was a perfectly good reason behind it. For some reason it reminded me of Blackadder Back and Forth, a scene cut where Blackadder asks Baldrick why he is wearing a plastic apron with a picture of a muscly chest on it.

Baldrick - Do you want the short answer or the long answer?

Blackadder - The short answer

Baldrick - Whim.

Blackadder - So the short answer is 'whim'. What, just out of interest, was the long answer?

Baldrick - It was a whim.

And that's what I said. It was a whim. 'Cause it was indeed fairly true. (Although I considered saying, after some of my interesting bodge-ups during Chemistry, that I was hoping my idiocy was conceal my incompetance. He might have found that funny, but probably not.) At Break, whilst Sara was wearing the ears, Dr. A II asked her why she was wearing them, and my response was 'Because I lent them to her of course!' As if that explained everything :-) I do love it when life gets mad and funny, even though I couldn't cope with it all the time. Wouldn't work, anyway. Told him about wearing them during chemistry, and he seemed quite surprised that I could dare wear them around Mr. JE. But he actully ignored them for quite a lot of the lesson. Makes me think of a bit I read in Oranges are not the only fruit today - 'if there was an elephant in a supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs. Jones and talk about fishcakes.' The unexpected either makes people laugh or frightens them. Sad, really. As if showing some creativity and originality is just one step on the way to insanity.

There was an armed robbery, and someone got shot in Strood on Saturday.

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