Exaggeration

Yesterday’s corner time: 8 Minutes.

Some presents arrived yesterday from my friend Salvador in Peru.

It looks like I may have a willing accomplice in Salvador. He had sent Becca a doll, which apparently had been manufactured to the highest of Peruvian safety standards and was therefore, for all intents and purposes, lethal.

I had been sent a really nice traditional woolly hat and some finger puppets.

Dad joked that the hat made me look like a gnome. For the remainder of the day, he kept trying to take a picture of me with a fishing rod whilst mumbling something about blackmailing me when I’m older.

I kept asking Dad if I could go to visit Salvador in Peru but he said that there was no way that he was travelling that far with two children under three. Eventually, he showed me where Peru was on the map. He kept telling me that it was a very long way away but it only looked like a few inches to me.

Mum said that it wasn't the first time that Dad had exaggerated a few inches to be something a lot more.

She sounded disappointed.

Matthew.

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