Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
“It looks like a pharaoh,” the boy commented.
“Hmm …” the girl leaned her elbows on the display case to take a photo. Dinosaurs weren’t Pharaohs, but her little brother was obsessed with anything Egyptian, so it was easier to agree. Took long enough to drag him out of that wing of the museum and into what she really wanted to see.
“Do you think the pharaohs saw one of these and it gave them the idea?”
She sighed. “There were no dinosaurs left at the time of pharaohs.”
“It’s not what I meant!” His nudge made her take a photo of a piece of plaster instead of the fossil bones. “Maybe they found something like this one.”
“Stop it!” She hissed. They’d be told to leave if they fought.
“Sorry.” He was, only sort of. “Is it called a ‘pharaohsaurus’?”
She rolled her eyes.
“Well, it should!”
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Museum in 147 words
Na'ama Yehuda 
I smile. Wonderful imagination 🙂
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Thanks, Crispina! Now, tell me, don’t it look like it is a prehistoric pharaoh’esque head? 😉
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Absolutely. That’s what I thought it was. 🙂
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🙂 I’m glad to hear I’m not just ‘seeing things’ … 😉 LOL
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No, definitely has the pharaonic thing going on there
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Yep, it sure does. Which again raises the question … where DID the pharaohs get the idea? 😉
(I can tell you who I think the Elizabethan kooky ruffle collars were inspired by … ;))
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Go on, what inspired the Elizabethan collars (apart from a desire to protect the neck from the axeman)?
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LOL
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Well …. it SHOULD … 😉
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I agree,
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🙂
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It absolutely should!!
Love this.
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🙂 Yeah, because … I mean, LOOK at that thing … 🙂
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As a father of three (two girls one boy)…..that conversation is very, very authentic.
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Glad it resonated … comes to show that children’s interactions are almost universal … 🙂
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Very true 😃.
Keep up the good work!
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🙂 Thanks!!
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I felt I was eavesdropping! Absolutely delightful
My story – ‘It’s true!’
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Thanks, Keith! What else is one supposed to do in a museum and a coffee shop other than eavesdrop? 😉
Off to read yours!
🙂
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Na’ama Y’karah,
This could’ve been a conversation between my boys. 😉 Ah the reasoning of children. Love this piece.
Shalom,
Rochelle
I, too, went with reality for 147, Alex. https://rochellewisoff.com/2019/09/08/weekend-writing-prompt-museum/
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Ha! Children everywhere (siblings, especially) are … well … children everywhere … 🙂 As for the reasoning — I mean, seriously, can you fault this? Short of elongated head aliens landing in Egypt and all that, where ELSE would the pharaohs have gotten their headdress idea? 😉
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Kid brothers are such pests. It’s even worse when they are kinda, sorta right. Cute story.
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In truth, I wouldn’a know about the ACTUAL experienced sense of the pest-potential of kid brothers, seeing that I only got me sisters (lots of them, but no brothers) … but I hear ya … 😉
My sisters — older as well as younger than I — can be right about things, too. A lot of the time. Does that qualify? 😉
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