Tuesday 11 June 2013

Animal rescue!

About a year ago I found the phone off the hook and a leaflet next to it.  The leaflet had a picture of a snow leopard on the front and said in bold letters 'Help save the snow leopard'.  I recognised the leaflet as a few days before Imogen had picked it off the floor as it fell out of a magazine I was reading and had asked me what it said.  I had made her work it out and she had kept it safe in her bag since then.
Inside there was a phone number to call and become a sponsor of the WWF to give £12 a month to help save the cute creature on the front.
 I picked up the phone and was glad to hear that it was dead at the other end sensing that at some point in the recent past it had been connected to a premium rate line!

I took the leaflet into Imogen's room.  'Immi, did you call the phone number on this leaflet?' 
All I got was a sheepish look.  'Immi, I need an answer, did you call the number?'
A nod this time.
'Did someone answer?'
Another nod.
'Was it a man or a lady?' I asked, trying to draw her out.
'A man' she said.
'What did he say?'
With relief I heard 'He told me I should call back when I am older.  Mummy, when you are an adult you can do what you want can't you?'
'Kind of,' I replied
'You're an adult when you are 18 aren't you?'
'Yes.'
I walk off with the leaflet, rip it in half and put it in the bin. 

End of scene one

Jump with me now 12 months to just a couple of weeks ago.  Imogen's room looked like a bomb had gone off and so Murray braved the room and went to sort out and throw away random empty cereal packets, inner tubes from kitchen roll, yogurt pots etc  While he was there he found the leaflet, it was carefully sellotaped back together!  He went to put in into the bin bag that he was brandishing, but Immi caught him in the act (again it would seem!) 
'No Daddy, don't throw that away!' she shouted 'I need that for when I'm eighteen!'

I don't know what I find most amazing.  Is it that she fished the leaflet out and stuck it together?  Is it that she remembered for over a year that she is calling them when she is 18?!  (Especially after she couldn't remember hiding her brother's DVD the week before!) Or is it that she cares so much about the fluffy leopard?! 

I am not sure which I find most amazing, but what I find worrying is that the very same day we found her sitting at her window watching our neighbours who had a bouncy castle in their garden that day; writing down the phone number of the bouncy castle company!!  I am hiding all the phones on her eighteenth birthday!!

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