She was
going crazy
thinking about the great dinner her mother had planned.
Her mother had
been
building up
the dinner for weeks and now she was late!
She was
put out
with her dancing teacher wanted to show the class a different hip-hop move at
the very end of the class!
Her teacher taught hip-hop
on the side,
and her regular job was as a police officer. If she asked the teacher to end the
class she might offend the teacher so she decided to
bite
her tongue
and not say anything to the teacher.
She had
come to
realize that if she said anything the teacher might be upset and not volunteer
to teach the class. If she didn't say anything she would be late for dinner!
Making the decision to
bite
her tongue
was a
double-edged sword.
So rather than asking the teacher to save it for another day, she decided it was
best to look like she was ready to
lap up
the new move.
Mary appreciated her teacher, but she wished her
teacher knew that there was a
fine line
between being an enthusiastic teacher and not making the class go late.
When the class finally ended, as
Murphy's law
would have it, when she left the class it was pouring rain. It didn't look like
it wouldn't
ease up
and
she had missed her bus home and probably Thanksgiving dinner! AND she
also to go to the
loo.
Mary was late to Thanksgiving dinner but learned that sometimes in life you have to make
decisions that are a
double-edged sword.
Mary gave thanks that evening that she not only had a great mother (who had
waited dinner for her ) but that she had a lot of other things to be thankful
for including her great hip-hop teacher!
Idioms in the Story:
fine line build up ease up Murphy's law put out bite your tongue go crazy lap up loo on the side get home come to double-edged sword
