Setting: I lounge on my parents' bed, waiting for the Anonymous Kidlets to come upstairs and start school. The schoolroom is my parents' room, you see. The sun pours through the curtains, the air con is on, and Anonymous Younger Sister comes bouncing through the door.
Anonymous Older Sister: Goodmorning, boing boing! (this seemed appropriate, as Anonymous Younger Sister had lept onto the bed with a grin brighter than the sunshine.)
Anonymous Younget Sister: Hello, maggot! (gleeful laughter)
Anonymous Older Sister: Excuse me??? (the sunshine stopped being so bright. The birds stopped singing and the happy twinkly music was no more. Um, okay, that was over the top...)
Anonymous Younger Sister: (giggles) Maggot! I learned it in science yesterday. It's fly larvae! A baby fly! (gleeful laughter)
Anonymous Youngest Child enters the room.
Anonyomous Younger Sister: Hello maggot! (They both go into spasmatic laughing attacks.)
Anonymous Older Sister falls backward onto the pillows, wondering why our society chooses to educate small children, anyway.
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