Irisism of the unfallen leaf

So here is our first Irisism. Here is the story. Her room is in the front of the house and overlooks the driveway and front year. Our front yard has a very alrge walnut tree sitting in the middle of it. She never closes her curtains ever. She likes looking out and watching what is going on outside. She is convinced that no one can see in especially when it is dark outside. But they can especially since she always has a light on which we call the perpetual light because it never ever is turned off. She is like a fish in a fish bowl and backlit to boot.

Well, our walnut tree started dropping leaves as it does every year. She watched and I guess must have kept count or something. Anyway, in the end one little leaf had not fallen yet. It was just outside of her window and she watched it for quite some time. Finally, and here is the Irisism, she said, ' Go knock that leaf off. I have been watching the leaves fall and that is the only one that has not fallen. It should not be there. Go knock it down now. It is just not right to still be there.'

Of course who can resist the temptation to want to go glue more leaves on to make sure they don't fall off? In fact I think about it each year of just gluing one leaf on the tree so it never drops. So far I have have been a good boy and not done so. She kept telling us to get that leaf off as it bothered her and it was just not right that it should still be on the tree. This went on for a couple of days. Finally one day after being chewed out multiple times a day for not knocking it off we finally removed it for our sanity. I would say her sanity but that went away some time ago.