Quiet
I was a very quiet child. Too well behaved.
Have you ever been forgotten?
My parents and family weren't bad. I was just too quiet.
People wouldn't notice I was around. "We gotta put a bell 🔔 on you!"
Mostly, they'd forget me. Left me at a neighbors' one time. My mom was driving me to school one day, forgot I was there, drove to work.
"Yay! No school today!"
"Ahh! What?"
"What?"
"Oh. Shit." Then she drove me to school.
It's hard to be the forgotten one.
No one ever forgot my brother. No one was ever surprised he was in the room. My brother makes noise. He isn't quiet.
I write my representatives. 🤠I'm not quiet now. I'm not interested in shutting up anymore.
I was first born with two younger brothers. I was the quiet one, still am.
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I was a first born, too, with two brothers and a sister after me. Voted Class Quietest...no longer quiet.
ReplyDeleteI'm the anonymous above. Trying to be quiet, I guess.
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