The quote for this week is "I never forget a face, but for you I'll make an exception" - the quote must appear on my page and in my story and there have to be some botanicals on my page to comply with Halle's theme at Art Journal Journey. The two elements make up the rules for my journal page with Wendy which we have been doing for simply ages.
"Jacinta had taken herself off to the local Botanical Gardens in the City. It had proved be too hot a day for wandering around and she had decided to give most of the hot houses a miss which was a shame because they had the most spectacular specimens in them. She just about managed to go in the Temperate House mainly because the Lotus flowers were in there and were quite a sight to see.
It was whilst in there that a young woman had turned rather quickly and stood hard on Jacinta's left foot.
"Ouch" shouted Jacinta, "that hurt."
"Pardon" said the young woman who was much taller than Jacinta, "are you speaking to me?"
"Yes I am, you stood on my foot and it darned well hurt." said Jacinta.
"I don't think so" came the reply.
"You jolly well did. If you look you have left a mark on my shoe and I think my heel is bleeding as a result."
"Nonsense, I was nowhere near you" said the woman in the white dress.
Jacinta was, by this time, feeling a tad annoyed, there was nobody else about and she hadn't managed to stand on the back of her own shoe. If this woman wasn't twice her size she would have a right go at her.
"You need to watch where you are going and not walk into people in the future, and just remember I never forget a face, but for you I'll make an exception and make sure we are never in the same room together again." and with that Jacinta turned and wincing a little, as her heel really was smarting, she hobbled out of the Temperate House and went and found a bench to sit on to examine her heel.
Luckily the woman didn't follow but she really had spoiled what could have been a lovely day. "Think I will go and get a cuppa and a cake to cheer myself up" she thought as she stood up, a bit of sugar was good for shock wasn't it."
I took great care to make sure my words were straight but the scan was skewy as you can see if you look down the left side where the ring binding is. Just not time to do it again as I need to be at the doctors in 15 minutes. Sorry.
