The Princess

The Princess

One day a little girl got separated from her parents in a storm. She trudged up Park Avenue till she could not walk any longer and stopped at the entrance to a building. A kindly man was just walking in and noticed how cold and lost she looked and he took her up to his condo. 

His little son immediately fell in love with the girl. His wife, with her keen nose for social status, suspected that the girl was a princess. But what if she was just middle class poseur? She made the visitor a nice hot bath and then prepared the guest bedroom. She put a tiny drop of pee on the mattress and then added another mattress on top. The poor tired child dropped off to sleep.

[credit to http://www.advocate-art.com/ for the image]

In the morning over a cup of Triple Venti Half Sweet Non-Fat Caramel Macchiato the wife asked how the guest had slept. "Very badly. I know I should have slept well but there was this smell of pee." And they knew right away that this was a true princess and they took her to her parent's castle. Later, after college, the two children were married and then spent a few happy years together.

ps. We made up a version of this story over lunch today and laughed till keema almost came out of our noses. Evan was balking at the peas in the keema, which provided the inspiration.