Monday, April 11, 2011

Threatening to leave

In other news, Jimmy Riches, 9, of Little Waddington, has threatened to take his bat and ball away from the local village boys' game of cricket unless his special rules are retained. Since he owns the only equipment in the small settlement, he demanded to set the terms on which the game is to be played. "Jimmy's code" included extra lives for Jimmy while batting and all his runs counting triple, plus being allowed to be sole umpire for contentious calls. The other boys felt these rules gave Jimmy an unfair advantage and sought to soften them, suggesting that perhaps he should only score double and that he had to state how many extra lives he had today before coming to the crease. Jimmy rejected these modifications and has warned that if the other boys insist on them, he will go and play with the lads in the next village.

3 comments:

Anthony Douglas said...

Looks like I've been missing some fun while Outlook's RSS went AWOL. Do I really need another piece of software to do just one thing properly? Sigh.

Anonymous said...

I'm guessing the little boy in question probably has Aspergers' syndrome.

byron smith said...

Or he may simply be a sociopath.