Sunday, September 30, 2012

One just would like to say this

It always feels slightly improper going into the front garden in a dressing gown with a toothbrush in one's mouth and toothpaste in one's hand. One is never quite certain why this should be, but it just strikes one as an activity that should be confined to the house, if not the bathroom itself. Strangely enough it always strikes one in this way after one has wandered absent-mindedly into the front garden in a dressing gown with a toothbrush in one's mouth and toothpaste in one's hand, which just goes to show, one never can know, can one? No, one can't. However, next time, one proposes a simple solution to this dilemma: instead of wandering into the front garden in a dressing gown with a toothbrush in one's mouth and toothpaste in one's hand, one will not bother putting the dressing gown on. The rose bush, one feels, is certainly of sufficient height now to protect one's modesty if and when the need should arise.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:17 pm

    'Man's life is but vain;
    For 'tis subject to pain,
    And sorrow, and short as a bubble;
    'Tis a hodge podge of business
    And money, and care,
    And care, and money and trouble.
    But we'll take no care
    When the weather proves fair
    Nor will we vex now,though it rain;
    We'll banish all sorrow
    And sing till tomorrow,
    And wear our dressing gown
    and clean our teeth very thorough
    even if neighbours wear a frown
    my toothpaste in hand
    dressing gown fallen down
    I shall stare them out till 'morrow
    every man owns his land
    each to his castle bold
    naked and proud and uncallow
    brushing teeth naked clad in the wind
    I shall never be a'feared'

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  2. I just tried to sing that with a toothbrush in my mouth and almost choked....

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  3. Anonymous7:34 am

    One might suggest that one does not stray to close to the rose bush sans dressing gown.

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