When the lady in
white was invited to a New Year’s Eve party, her new dress was not ready.
She regretfully wore
her second best dress as there was a prize for the Best Dressed Lady. But she
proudly wore her new mother-of-pearl-glazed shoes.
As she arrived at the
venue that evening, the air was crisp and cool.
She noticed the
mermaid sculpture in the corner, the enormous pool, the giant cake, and the pretty
dresses of other ladies.
“Hello! Welcome to
the party!” said a little girl who was at the entrance handing out flowers to
the guests as they arrived.
The lady gently
tucked the flower into her hair while thanking the girl.
“Your dress is so
pretty!” the girl exclaimed “It’s almost as pretty as the peacock-blue dress of the
lady over there.”
The lady looked to
where the girl was pointing and noticed the amazing azure dress of the lady who
sat with her friends near the poolside.
Catching the attention
of the girl, the lady in white said, “I bet her shoes aren’t as good as mine.”
So saying, she raised her dress and flung one foot up for the girl to see.
Unfortunately, the shoe was loose and went flying in the air.
It landed on the
head of an important-looking gentleman who was having an early dinner. His head
sank into his dinner plate. He slowly lifted up his curry-stained face and looked
around to see where the shoe came from, only to stare right at the welcoming
girl. She, in turn, caught a fright and ran away, screaming.
She wasn’t looking
where she was going and dashed right into the clay mermaid whose head broke
away. Everybody looked up to see who was screaming so the little girl put her
own face in place of the mermaid’s. The guests soon went about doing what they
were doing as if nothing happened.
The girl threw the
head away and it landed on the electric switch button that controlled the
lights at the party. Immediately there was darkness all around and women shrieked,
“EEEEeee”.
A bald butler,
wearing a wig, carried a ladder and a torch to climb up to the switch button to
set it right. When he did so, the “EEEeee” shrieks become a relaxed “AHHhh”.
The butler liked
this effect so much that he switched the button off and on a couple of times
and the women went
“EEEeee......AHHhh”
“EEEeee......AHHhh!”
“EEEeee......AHHhh”
“EEEeee......AHHhh!”
The butler got so
excited with the effect of the screams that he jumped off the ladder right into
the big trampoline behind him. His wig bounced up and down on his head as he
bounced up and down on the trampoline much to the amusement of the guests who
stood around him and clapped.
Meanwhile, another
butler was carefully carrying a cake with a candle outside. He bumped against
the mermaid’s head and the burning candle fell on a lady’s peacock-blue dress.
The lady was animatedly talking to a group of friends in lovely dresses near
the pool. Her friends noticed the fire and pushed her into the pool
immediately. The water that splashed out of the pool drenched the beautiful dresses
of all her friends.
In the dining room, the
lady in white was limping around looking for her lost shoe. There were so many
people in there that she found it difficult to get around without bumping into
someone. “How I wish everybody would leave this room so I can find where my
shoe has gone!” she said to herself.
“FIRE!” someone outside
shouted. There was a mad rush to leave the dining room.
“Now that is wishful
thinking, isn’t it?” the lady in white said to herself.
Much to her relief,
she found her shoe on a dinner plate on one of the tables. She wiped it on a
napkin and walked out proudly to see what the fuss was all about.
It was then that
they announced that it was time to crown the Best Dressed Lady.
The lady in white grandiosely
walked up to the stage only to find herself among water-drenched beauties with
soggy hairstyles.
Our lady in white
won the competition with her unruffled hairdo, her second best dress, and of course,
her mother-of-pearl shoes.
(Picture courtesy: Google Images)
