Reality Rocks

Millions of trees are accidently planted each year because squirrels misplace their nuts.

Squirrels have kittens and four fingers and five toes.

As John Lennon said “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination”.

This week I heard the following in real live situations, not on TV, the radio or at the movies, but from living, breathing ordinary people in ordinary situations:


1. “Excuse me I have to get an alien off the roof.”

2. “I’m going to give up nursery nursing and become a spy.”

3. “Conquering Greece is going to have to wait.”

(See context below)

Salvador Dali: “I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.’’

Tom Clancy: “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

Context 1: A toy alien had been thrown up on the youth centre roof.
Context 2: A volunteer discovers her abilities to solve cryptograms in our code themed week.
Context 3: A game has to be abandoned to make dinner