Slipper Wars

[wine_skin]

Yesterday as I was leaving for work my husband threw his slipper at me and it got stuck in the black walnut tree in the front yard. It was the second time he threw it, the first time it landed on the steps in front of me and I (unwisely) threw it back.
It’s a game we play sometimes, like I’ll throw an empty soda bottle through his open window as he drives away and he’s stuck with it because he already drove away. If the object lands in front of you while walking you have to pick it up, but if it’s behind you the thrower picks it up. No extra points for being beaned by said object, unless after it hits you it still lands in front of you.
So before I left for work, doubled over with laughter, I asked him how he was going to get it out of the tree. He said maybe a broom, or throwing something at it. It rained a lot last night and the slipper is still up there. I asked him why he didn’t throw the broom at it, and he said well, there are cars on the street. Now, I think he has an over inflated sense of his own strength, like he’s Thor with the hammer; did he think the broom was going to travel 70 feet?
In any case, the slipper is still out there.
On the topic of hammers, I’m watching Ragnarok on Netflix and I totally recommend it.

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[meowmensteen]

When I was a child, most of the toys I threw up into the holly tree, stayed up there. Decades later, they cut down that tree, and found many treasures.