Sunday, September 30, 2007

FW: A tale

Once upon a time there was a princess. She was unhappy. Who knows why; all princesses seem to be unhappy at some time in there life even if they are rich and beautiful. This particular princess was one of such typical princesses. Naturally, she had many suitors, and naturally, the princess was going through royal drama with this predicament (as usually happens with these types of stories). Being SO beautiful and SO rich, and having a princess’s opinion of herself, it was difficult for anyone to measure up to her expectations. This predicament was probably the reason the princess was so unhappy. Princes and knights would come from afar to seek her hand (not because they were in love with her, mind you, but because that was just what princes and knights did in those days).
One day she was making a focused expression that displayed her dismay, very princess-like without even a wrinkle on her forehead, when the stress of being a princess became too much for her, and a big, red zit popped out right in the middle of her forehead. She was mortified! This was the first time ever that something like this had happened to a princess.
She locked herself in her room, and pretty soon all of the suitors had given up and gone away, except for one. This knight had arrived late because his horse had stubbed his toe. He had carried his poor horse all the way to the castle, and he had developed quite a painful blister. Because he was rather tired, he decided to spend the night outside the castle walls. He was making so much noise that the princess stuck her head out of the door with such a look of unprincesslike infuriation—glaring her eyes, furrowing her brow, and barring her teeth—that the knight flew back in surprise and landed in a pile of mud. Being kind, if not vain, she regretted her aggravation and helped him out. They began talking, and they came to the agreement that they were tired of the way things were. They decided to run away and manufacture toe-guarded horseshoes together, and eventually they fell in love, got married, and lived happily for the rest of their lives, even with blisters and zits.

5 comments:

mezmerato said...
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mezmerato said...

;-)

I hope you find your prince.

Sam said...

Classic Michelle. You crack me up. I miss listening to your stories. We still need to invite you over for dinner...it's just so busy all the time that it's hard to find a good time to do it. I promise we will, though. Sam still keeps saying we need to.

Sam said...

P.S. If that sounded like we're only going to invite you because Sam says we need to, that's not true. That's just how it came out. I want you to come over sometime. I miss you.