Posted by: Suzy J. | August 11, 2008

An anecdote.

So I was going for a walk today. And I saw thee BIGGEST rainbow I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t the brightest, but it’s size was spectacular. It seemed to soar kilometers into the sky. The right half of it was lighting up pitch black rain clouds and the left half had a backdrop of clear blue sky. I could see where both ends of the rainbow were, one was nearing the North of Highton (although obscured by Hightons natural hillyness), and the other end was a good four blocks away from the Mercure hotel.

My mum always told me that there’s a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. She’d say that whenever we saw one, and I ALWAYS thought, with ever growing annoyance and frustration, “well then, let’s DRIVE there and then we’ll have loads of gold with which to buy me toys with!!!”. I ran to one of the ends of that rainbow today, but no pot of gold did I find.

I’m hopeful that I just went to the wrong end of the rainbow.


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  1. Hee hee! I couldn’t help but picture you as a little pirate, with your eye patch and gold-chipped tooth, chatting with the parrot on your shoulder, saying, “Ahoy matey, after we swab the deck, we’ll have LOADS of gold to buy me toys with! GARRRR!”

  2. I noticed that rainbow while I was outside gardening; it was exactly as you described, Uzi. As in, extending over both clear blue sky and dark clouds. Coincidentally, just as I looked up and noticed it, Judy Garland’s rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” began playing on my MP3 player!

    Actually, no, it wasn’t “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” … it was “Ça plane pour moi” by Plastic Bertrand.

    What a funny coincidence!

  3. He he he he! That IS a funny coincidence!

    There are a few yo-yos downstairs, if you want ‘em, Japers. Best get to them before the ants do. Sheri, you’re most welcome to some as well. Best get to them before the Japers does.

  4. Chances are, JP will get to them before I will. Stupid prick.


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