Best Compliment Ever

The song kinda resembles me....I've got far too much stuff and not enough time to pack it up and drive it to the local Goodwill.

Today I am thankful for three-year-old little girls.

I get to work just shy of 6:00 a.m.

As I'm always in a hurry, I have to take the stairs because they are closer to my office than the elevators.

The cast I'm wearing on my left leg clunks along each stair.

My foot gets number as I walk.

So what starts out as a fast rhythm, slows down considerably by the time I reach the second set of stairs.

I've gained 10 pounds since I burned myself and couldn't exercise.

I'm feeling incredibly unattractive.

As I'm walking up the stairs, I run into a beautiful little girl with dark curly hair and brown eyes.

She is alone.

We both stop and look at each other.

I'm looking all around for her guardian.

She stares up at me in astonishment

and exclames

"You look like Ariel!"

Oh my gosh, that made my day.

Scratch that, she made my decade.

If it were Halloween,

that kiddo would have ALL THE CANDY!

What a sweetie.

Her mother and sisters arrived a few moments later.

I thanked the child and went about my day.

The encounter makes me wonder, though.....

What would a mermaid's tail sound like trying to navigate a flight of stairs?

Would it thump?

Hmmmm...

I don't know about you but I tend to have bizarre thoughts at six in the morning.

May your mind be filled with positive, wonderful thoughts and all the children you encounter be kind.

Love ya,

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