#26, RE: New Story Posted...
Posted by drakensisthered on Aug-01-01 at 01:54 AM
In response to message #12
>Wapiko's actual lesson about the facts of life comes at six years old, >on a summer visit to the house in Texas. (I made this story up years >ago, but cannot think of any possible story to drop it in, so here it >is.) > >One day Wapiko looks out the window into the yard and sees two >jackrabbits, well, multiplying. }:-{D > >Wapiko, not having been told about this by anyone, goes and asks her >mother what the rabbits are doing. Washuu replies by saying that they >are making babies, and that most mammalian species do it in >such-and-so a way, and describes basic mechanics. (Advanced studies >will come later, and in much greater detail, when Wapiko's able to >absorb the knowledge. Say, age eight.) > >Wapiko listens carefully, thanks her mother, and then goes out front >to cheer the rabbits on. "GO RABBITS! GO RABBITS! MAKE LOTS AND LOTS >OF BABIES! YAAAAAAAAAY RABBITS!" > >It was thereafter decided that, if and when any more children should >come along, the -Redneck- would be the one to handle the Birds & Bees >talk. }:-{D >Probably the best place to tell that stouf 'in universe' would be Washuu inflicting the tale on a teenaged Wapiko, as in 'and that's how you found out about the birds & the bees'. Sounds a tiny bit like how my Mom explained it to me (according to her memory anyway) except I was five and there weren't any rabbits. Some kid back in... different school system, year BEFORE first grade I think... asked where babies come from in class, and while the teacher tried to figure out what to say, I allegedly stood up and answered him. drakensisthered So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'
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