Topic: A comedy of disbelief.

[piersdad]

 
In this small village some newcomers shifted into a rental house.
They had a very adventurous small two year old boy.
They had a lot of house hold goods and some of it had to get stored in the small sleep out shed.
A few days after they had shifted in their son was happily playing in the shed pretending it was his house and making it more comfortable.
He had already made great friends with the boy next door and decided to invite him over.
Now there was a thick hedge between the two houses that had once been a makeshift fence and the hedge had grown over the fence and the wires disappeared in the foliage.
In the hedge was a small hole just large enough for a small boy to get through.
As the boy crept through the hedge things went a bit wrong as he received a mild electric shock from the branch he was crawling over.
This made him yell and kick his feet off the ground breaking the circuit and the momentum sent his forward so that his hands touched the ground where he got another mild shock.
So as he yelled his head off he was sea sawing back and forth yelling –kicking –pushing till a very concerned mother arrived and grabbed her screaming son.
That’s when she got a much more substantial shock as she was more firmly standing on the ground,  mother and boy landed  a short distance away on her bottom still clutching her son, who by this time had recovered his fright and learnt a two new words
 ’Bloody shock’.
By this time his dad arrived and the bewildered mother told him she had got a shock from the hedge.
Not believing what he was told he also touched the branch of the hedge and he too was thrown onto the ground to hear a small voice say
 “Bloody shock dad”
So they all retreated inside and called the local electrician and explained that the hedge was alive.
The electrician was incredulous as there should not be any power any where near the hedge, he also touched the branch, and he too got an even bigger shock.
And a small voice said
 “Funny man bloody shock”
So that when a serious investigation was made and the electrician eventually found the old fence wire that was tangled in the hedge was now trailing into the store shed and when he followed the wire he had found it pushed into a disused power plug.
Apparently the adventurous boy had put it there and being on a dry floor did not get a shock.