"Okay, thank you. Why do people make comments like that?"He smiled before answering. Elaine wondered if she'd asked the right question. Or at least a ...ood one to get the ball rolling."I'd say because it's an exaggeration, and therein lies the humour. It's like saying I'm going to get fit by running around the world. It's funny. Not hilarious, but it's enough to make people smile." Okay, I get it." Hesitating with her fingers over the keys, Elaine tried to frame her next question, the one she. She had skipped a grade early in her elementary school, the result being that she was the youngest girl in her class. Three weeks prior to making her disheartening announcement, Robbie and his parents had celebrated her birthday weekend with a special dinner and birthday cake, each assuming that it was her fifteenth birthday. Betsy, afraid of their potential reaction if she corrected them, chose to pretend that she was as well. Physically she was not a large girl, just barely over five feet. She decided to say something to get her attention. She pushed her glasses up her nose. “Why does it smell like spring in here all the sudden.” She smiled, waiting for a reaction.But this time, Agatha looked down at her coldly, before she harshly pulled her foot away, then kicked her other boot into Lori’s stomach, making her yelp. Lori unscrewed her pained face, then started unzipping the other boot, taking the clue to keep her mouth shut.With both boots off, Lori tried to grab her boss’s foot. Feeling peckish, I set about making myself animprovised table from one of the hay bales and ate mylunch. The rain continued to hammer down so I moved acouple of more bales together, scattered some loose hayon top and made myself comfortable. The warmth of thebarn and the pattering of the rain became almosthypnotic and soon I had drifted off to sleep. The sound of voices and the main door being unlockedwoke me up and I rolled over towards the edge of theloft and looked down on to the lower part.