Norma C Plummer Stories
Reading
Snacks two
DOMINOS
Back in the 80s a fad took over when multitudes of coloured dominos were
being set up in patterns to form pictures when they were set and then
tipped against one another. Copying the example of the Japanese, some
Dutch students painstakingly set thousands of dominos ever so carefully.
Once officially ticked off, the dominos sped through their paces in
waves of coloured pictures like the tide coming ashore. After hours and
hours setting up, the show was over in a few moments.
Luckily the display was filmed and broadcast from a TV station, where
all the staff stopped work to watch the amazing results.
People delight in whimsical things, even the lowly domino.
CINDERELLA?
A grandmother was asked to mind her little granddaughter until her
mother had packed up to leave the small hotel where they had been
staying.
So they sat and waited together in the lobby. The little girl asked to
hear a story. It's one thing to read a storybook, and another to tell a
story ad lib.
However, grandma decided to tell the story of Cinderella, and managed to
get only as far as the part where Cinderella couldn't go to the ball,
not having a ball gown, for one thing.
Just then the child's mother came along, and they all left together. But
the Receptionist called after them, "I won't know how the story ended!"
DOG AND BEAR DUET
Some segments of the TV MUPPET SHOW were priceless.
Foggy, the bear, and Rolph, the dog, sat down to play a piano duet (4
hands - one small piano).
The bear took the Primo part, and opened with the air of Percy Granger's
"Country Gardens," plunked out smartly. Then Rolph, the dog, joined in
with his Secondo part, and they were off briskly into solo bits, before
joining in again with added gusto.
Now seized with excitement over the secondary development of this jolly
piece, they attacked the keyboard with a frenzy, until the dog's ears
were flying, and the bear's hat flew off.
They came to an exhilarating finale with both players sliding off the
piano bench. BRAVO!
by Norma C. Plummer