The Round-Tower

So I’m sitting here in front of the tv with my family and Pumpkin (dd 14 yrs old) has just finished a book she found in our library.  It is an allegory, and not one she knew we had. She loved it so much that she read it aloud to her sisters and accused me of ‘withholding’… She should know by now that if I BUY a book, it is WORTH reading… (other than the odd book that ends up a waste of a good tree anyway… which isn’t often) he. he. he.  Anyway, as the book indicated sequels she made for the downstairs computer to look them up on Amazon. Shortly, an IM window popped up requesting my attention. It was from Pumpkin… who was still downstairs on the other computer.  I know. We are sick people, IMing in the same house.  However, were we not sick people, I would not have this for your reading pleasure.  What can I say… the child IS creative… (Unfortunately, the smiley’s we used did not transfer…)  We did end up talking about yet another book she wanted from another series that is a family favorite and that is when things got fun…

Pumpkin: I am looking at
Pumpkin: a book that I have been looking for
Pumpkin: for a year and 8 months
Mom: title?
Pumpkin: I was told it was comeing out in july
Pumpkin: PLEASE MAY I TELL IT TO BUY?!?!?!?!
Mom: title?
Pumpkin: Rangers Aprentice:The land of Ice and Snow, book 3
Mom: it is set up to purchase on that computer?
Pumpkin: What does that mean??
Mom: you had best let me do it dear
Pumpkin: Now????

Pumpkin: I’ll beg
Mom: that could be interesting
Pumpkin: Shall I start
Pumpkin: ??
Mom: oh please
Mom: I am not sure that it is possible
Pumpkin: Oh thou merciful mother, who bore me in thy body….
Pumpkin: And has fed and nourished me…
Pumpkin: and probably has quite a few gray hairs on thy head because of me……
Pumpkin: I BESEACH thee…..
Pumpkin: Oh please take note that…
Pumpkin: all the money and effort you have spent on me…
Pumpkin: from teaching me to read and not bite thee…..
Pumpkin: to getting me braces so that my teeth wilt not sprouteth from my ears……….
Pumpkin: may yet go to waste….
Pumpkin: for if I do not get this book before the next month is up…
Pumpkin: I shall probably die…
Pumpkin: of anticipation…
Pumpkin: for now that I know that It is out………
Pumpkin: and that I do not have it my body begins to waste………..
Pumpkin: I beg of thou, oh most merciful and compassionant majesty…..
Pumpkin: to grant me a repreive…..
Pumpkin: so that I may live….
Pumpkin: and thy money and effort shall not be in vain…
Pumpkin: So To make a long tale short
Pumpkin: I beg of you …
Pumpkin: buy The Icebound Land (Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 3) by John Flanagan NOW
Pumpkin: Lest I fall down and die at they wonderful non-stinky feet
Mom: awwww and you were doing SO WELL…
Pumpkin: I can start again
Mom: oh no… that will be QUITE sufficient… for this book anyway
Pumpkin: If it please thee to grant the humble wish of the un-worthy and VERY stinky bunny-keeper…
Pumpkin: and If she were to pay for it..
Mom: oh well, one does have the ability to redeem ones begging self, doesn’t one…
Pumpkin: woulds’t thou also get the 4th book wich I justnoticed at the very bottom of the screen???

Mom: you are SO good…
Pumpkin: Shall I start again?
Mom: no, that is quite sufficient. boon granted.
Pumpkin: I thought it best to take it slow
Pumpkin: and THANK you
Mom: yw.
Pumpkin: Oh merciful One

Pumpkin: we are drooling all over the key board down here
Mom: we?
Pumpkin: Yep
Pumpkin: Still in shakesperian type mode
Mom: ah ha
Mom: uh dearest?
Mom: you DO realize this is a PRE order?
Pumpkin: Noooooo
Pumpkin: I didn’t
Mom: ordered anyway as a pre order
Pumpkin: but I’ll settle for that
Pumpkin: THANK YOU
Pumpkin: AM DOING CARTWHEELS
Mom: yw
Pumpkin: ON THE CEILING

What can I say? The child can beg with such class… heaven forbid she realize how fun that was and decide she wants yet more books…