One day last week I ordered new carpet for the room that suffered damage from our recent water leak here at Doright Manor. The saleswoman who helped me decide on a pattern came out to the house to measure the area to be carpeted and talked me into also buying carpet for the two adjacent rooms. She was quite good at her job.
We chatted as she measured and eventually she asked what I did with my free time. I told her I’d recently finished my first novel. She looked at me kind of funny, so I elaborated, saying I one day realized I’d written 100,000 words.
“Oh,” she said. “I thought you meant you’d finished reading your first novel.”
We laughed, but then I wondered if I needed to upgrade my image. Surely I don’t look like a non-reader. Right?
Peace, people!
Praying for Eyebrowz 
She was probably deaf as a post darling. xxx
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No, she’s much younger than I am. I think she’s just rather literal in her thinking.
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Yes… she probably thought you had graduated from reading books to novels. x
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Lol! Yes, no more Cat in the Hat!
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Yeah,,, The big girl league.
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Brilliant relative cartoon
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😊 Thanks!
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That’s funny! I’m glad you were able to clarify… I’d hate to leave someone with that impression. Congrats about finishing your novel btw!
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Thank you. I couldn’t stop laughing when she said that. After all, she was in my home—she’d walked past my bookshelves filled with books.
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