Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Mrs Wobble the Waitress

Welcome to My Reality, Week 14, prompt 4. When you were a child what were your dreams for when you were a grownup?

This will probably sound really sad and depressing, but I cannot recall ever having solid dreams as a child. Yes, I came up with ideas of things I might quite like to do but they never lasted very long. For example, I’m pretty sure I wanted to be a vet at some point (I’m pretty sure every girl says that), perhaps a human doctor too. A dancer may have come up, definitely a waitress. I’ll come back to the waitress thing in a minute.
However, very quickly I realised that all of these goals were unobtainable. I could never be a vet or doctor because, to be honest, I would have done more harm than good. I did ballet for a while – I was even in a few shows – but again, I wasn’t physically able to keep this up.
Therefore, it got to the point that, whenever asked what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would just say, “work with computers” or “help people”. In fact, I think “help people” was actually on my secondary school record. How creative!

So, no, I had no real dreams. I had very little confidence or belief. Thus, I had no dreams.

The waitress thing was a bit of a standing joke. I read Mrs Wobble the Waitress by Allan Ahiberg, a few times with my parents, and we all agree that that book was written about me!