A Story Gege Told: The Little Stone and ABSea

Yesterday, on the shuttle bus, Gege told me a story.

In the story there is a little stone. He made a point of describing it: the little stone is very ordinary, an ordinary colour, an ordinary shape, and not all that big.

The little stone saw some sparkling stones and wanted to hang on the wall with them. Those stones said, "You're too ordinary. You're not shiny enough."

Then it wanted to be friends with the sand. The sand said, "You're too big."

It wanted to be friends with some rocks. The rocks said, "You're too small."

Later, it wanted to be friends with a cat. The cat batted it around with its paw a few times, then ran off to play somewhere else.

Later still, a person took the little stone home.

This person liked stones, and this little stone was the very first stone he had ever brought home.

That is where the story ends.

On the way home that evening, Gege also told me a joke:

When pirates say ABC, they don't say ABC. They say, "ABSea."

The letter C sounds the same as "sea," the English word for the ocean. Spell it a different way, and just like that, pirates and the sea turn up in the same sentence.

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