Magic Minute Moonlight Misstep

MAGIC MINUTE // Twas a stormy night by the light of the silvery moon when it happened.

Our merry nightman was waltzing down the garden path to our outhouse in the backyard to empty our night pan – long before universal sewerage had come along.

But sadly for him, we three boys had spent the afternoon building a 3 foot deep man-trap on this very path as a bit of harmless fun.

And a real work of art it was, covered with sticks and newspaper and sprinkled with dirt so you wouldn’t even know it was there!

Then, called in for dinner, we forgot all about it.

Around midnight our poor dunny man somehow missed it on the way down with his empty pan; but on the way back the earth opened up on him as he tumbled into our trap, the full can flying from his shoulder!

I can only imagine the terror this hapless man experienced as he clawed his way out of this hellish nightmare wondering: “What on earth just happened?!”

His wellbeing pricked my conscious for years for I often thought: “It’d be nice to meet this guy someday and say ‘I’m sorry’.”

I’m Laurie Smale… Till my next Magic Minute. 🪄

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