Intro: I started this post on July 7, 2009, but I never finished it on that day. I didn't finish it until today, November 11, 2009. (Sadly my blog will insist on saying I posted it on July 7.) I'd forgotten all about it until today. I finished the post the best I could, but it wasn't easy since those emotions and events were foremost in my mind when I started it and it was all but forgotten when I finished it.
The Joke
Background: This is definitely the best joke and one of very very few good jokes that I've made
Cast:
Pinky - the youngest of the family
Somebody - a.k.a. me
Setting: Pinky trying to put toast into toaster but not able to reach.
Mom: May I assist you with that?
Pinky: Yeah, I can't get it in....what does assist mean?
Mom: Assist means help.
Somebody: that's why I'm called a sister - because I assist you.
The Fulfillment
I got my chance to assist Pinky at a lake in Minnesota, it came about like this.
Yesterday I, Grandma, two aunts (Mary and Buggie), Mom, two cousins, and five siblings (Married One, Jangles, J, Gracie, and Pinky) went to the lake.
There's a sandy place on the shore that could be considered a beach by some.
Everyone else was back on the grass behind the water, but Buggie and I were thigh-deep in water chatting and Pinky was playing in the lake with her kickboard. I thank God that we were facing in her direction when she swam too deep and lost her kickboard. I didn't notice at all, but Buggie was just about to call out to her that she was too deep and needed to come back when she lost the board. Buggie, kind of causually to me, said 'Pinky lost her board', I looked and sure enough she had, and she can't swim. I started walking and after a few steps started running. I got in above my waist and realized I was gonna have to swim, so I started swimming, looked up to see how close I was, and then it came to me that it's not just the people on the news who drown, it can be anyone. So I swam faster, got there, grabbed her, - and a wave of relief washed over me.......then I put my feet down. There was over six inches of weeds embraced by goopy mud on the bottom....it was disgusting. I turned around and there was Buggie, right behind me - that kinda surprised me, because in all the excitement I hadn't heard her behind me. She told me on our way back that she had yelled to me when I started swimming, 'You get her! You can swim faster than me, you'll get to her sooner!'
Mom and I and Buggie had a talk with Pinky about staying by the shore and not going more than chest deep without someone right beside her watching her.
Boy, was I thankful the rest of the dayfor the dear little sister God had given me.
The End
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