Chickeeta and the Emoticons ~:>
I can assure you, my voice is not hollow and stuck up.Once upon a time, Bob saw a chicken.
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“AWWWWW!” he cried. “How cute!”
Bob’s mom and dad were very stern.
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“Chickens are filthy!” cried his mom. She had a hollow, stuck-up voice, and she talked like she was in an opera.
She hadn’t even looked at the chicken.
“They take mud baths!” said his dad. He talked in only one note: a low C.
“Uhh, so do I, dear. It‘s good for your skin. Soooo… these chickens take… healthy baths?”
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“I guess…” said Bob in a sing-songy voice, hoping his mom was caving in.
“Oh, how… smart, they are. Oh, they are kind of cute… in a way… you know… I wouldn’t mind one… in fact… I’d even, maybe like one…”
The dad, though, was still unhappy.
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“It would get in the way of my cooking! Getting feathers in my mushrooms and eggs, which I loooooooooooove.”
“Dad! Chickens lay eggs!”
“They do?” his dad asked suddenly in a high C.
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“Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“LET’S GET THAT CHICKEN!” cried the family. So they bought it.
:-D :-D :-D <:~They lived in harmony, happily ever after.
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Comments
I suggested adding "in harmony" in the last line to tie-in the music theme she had going and to which she immediately agreed. I then suggested replacing two exclamation points (at the end of the first and third sentences) with periods. She needed to be convinced about that suggestion.
She hasn't gotten to the part about "don't use foreign words" in TAoF yet. Me neither.
Merci!