Swallowed

Here's the story that Riley told me on the way home from our appointment with the orthotics guy... It's a doozy, and I'm trying to keep it as close as possible to the original.

One day, I climbed up really, really high on a house, and I fell really, really far down, last Thursday!  And then, I got swallowed by a BIG WHALE!  And I was in his tummy.  And then an alligator swam by-- right by me!-- and swallowed me.  And I was in his tummy for two weeks!  Then a store helped me get out.  Then a shark swallowed me!  It was a mean shark, and it was a boy, and it had lots of teeth!  It had 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15 teeth!  Then a fish swallowed me-- a really, really big fish!  It was yellow and had lots of tears.  Would you miss me?  (Me: "Of course!  We'd all miss you!")  Daddy would miss me, and Noelle would miss me, and Uncle Steve would miss me!  And then I got home.  I walked... on the street.  And then a mean car swallowed me!

(editor's note: it's my personal opinion that this is where the story starts to go off the rails a little and gets slightly unbelievable, but please hear it out till the end.)

And then... a mean leaf swallowed me!  And then a house swallowed me-- a mean house!  (If you're wondering if it was the same house she fell off of on Thursday, I asked.  It was.)  And then a garage swallowed me.  And then a mean bike swallowed me!

The End