Laughing-stock

When IJ met me at the school gates on Friday, she had a suspicious look on her face and she was laughing, at me, it seemed.

Then her teacher appeared to hand over her sports kit, she had forgotten it. And she seemed to be smirking to herself.

I wasn't sure what the joke was and decided not to automatically assume they were laughing at me. It's so easy to become paranoid.

This evening I discovered that the joke really was on me, when IJ announced,

"Mummy, on Friday I told my teacher that when you laugh, you snort like a pig."

"And what did your teacher say?" I asked.

"She thinks you are very funny."

So now I'm paranoid.

I won't be laughing for a while!

*snort*