Over lunch today, Babess suddenly said, “Mum! I just realised something!”
I raised an eyebrow encouragingly.
“You know when flies are going around, buzz buzz like that, and it looks like it’s just random?”
“Ye-es…?”
“I just realised! They’re really showing you their phone number!”
“Really?!”
“Yes! ‘Cos they go from this side, then up like that then the other side is open and they do that…” she explained inefficiently but with expansive and complicated gestures.
“Do you think flies have their own phones?” I enquired.
“Yes!” she was astonished that I would even entertain the idea that they didn’t. “Otherwise how will their schools know where they are?”
I conceded the point. “But how do they carry them?”
That slowed her down only momentarily. “Between their wings, tucked up like that.”
So now you know.
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