Waiting for the other shoe to drop /Trouble comes in threes

I was feeling creative yesterday so I wrote this little piece. My novel only has a couple chapters left and it is done. Anyway, it is not perfect a rough draft, but thought I would share. ROFL

Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop or Trouble Comes In threes

Two bad things have happened this week. I am just sitting here waiting for the other shoe to drop.

He looked down at his shoes and thought, "Why is the fact of dropping another shoe on the floor scarey? Who came up with that one and why? What happened after the other shoe hit the floor? I want to know! There is no place a person can go look all these up in a book to find out."

Trouble Comes In Threes. Now that has always made me nervous, usually because it really happens that way. I have seen it, and experienced it all my life. Right now is going to be the third thing this week.

This was going through Jim's mind as he sat there. He was waiting outside the Principle's office. He was just waiting for the third thing.

He never, not once, was called to see the Principle before, and he was scared.

There are a million weird expressions or cliche's. I mean we have all heard them. How could that be? Everyone has heard them or even repeated them. Why do that if they were not true? They had to have started somewhere, way back in history, at some particular point in time. Then it was repeated and repeated till everyone has heard it many times. That is a LOT of people!

He heard the school bell and thought about being late for his next class. He hated being late. Everyone looking at you when you came in like you were some weirdo.

Don't put the cart before the horse. Well, DUH! That doesn't even make sense, but we have all heard it. Maybe in the days of horses and carts it was something important you should know. But what has that got to do with anything today?

He saw kids walking through the hall on their way to the next class. Many looked at him and whispered to their friends. He stuck his tongue out at Billy who was pointing and laughing at him.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Well, how many baskets do you have to carry? If you trip and fall they all will fall with you, whether it is one basket or ten. Carrying more than one basket seems very inconvenient when one would do. I have piled as much as I can in my arms to carry someplace. It was better than making ten trips. Well, ok. If you drop the huge stack it takes longer to pick up but that doesn't happen all the time.

A really stupid one is, You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But You Can't Make Him Drink. So big deal. The horse isn't thirsty. Why make a big issue about it?

Then my mom's favorite ones, Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. I know people who go to bed early and get up at the crack of dawn, and they certainly are not rich, or wise, and some are downright sickly.

The hallway was quiet now. Everyone was in their classrooms, It seemed spooky looking at the big empty hallway.

Then, of course, the other favorite of hers is, The early bird gets the worm. Well, ok, I know the last one is at least true. I've seen birds getting worms out of the lawn early in the morning when waiting for the bus, but then I assume that birds can find worms all day too. So really what is the point of it?

Jim heard a phone ring in the big office behind the door.

Did cliche's start back in the really old days, like Aesop's day, where things had to have a moral? Some of them are downright silly. Most of them are just common sense. Of course, Aesop Fables is fun to read because of all the animals doing silly stuff.

Parents love to shove cliche's down their kids throats as they grow up. If all your friends jump off a bridge...

Jim heard voices on the other side of the closed door. He fidgeted in his chair.

Well, he wouldn't jump off a bridge just because his friends did. That was just plain stupid. Haven't parents heard of self- preservation?

Jim sighed. He heard a chair move in there. He tensed. Ok, it was soon time to face the music.

How could facing the music be a bad thing? And, how do you face music? You can hear it, but face it? If you come face to face with something that you had done... I mean things don't have faces. Anyway,I think that is an expression, not a cliche'.

Basically they are the same thing- cliche's and expressions. They are funny ways to say things that are supposed to mean something, whether they make any sense or not. Adults seem to love saying them.

Jim looked at the clock on the wall. It seemed to be ticking very slowly. He had been sitting here for ages and the clock says it has only been about seven minutes. He looked at the closed door in dread.

Being called to the office is usually not a good thing. From the sounds of it, there were more than one person in that office. That made it doubly bad.

No sense crying over spilt milk. Now, if that was my last glass of milk to eat Oreo cookies with, and I couldn't have anymore, I might cry. Well not really, because I am a man. Men don't cry. Ok, so that is a lie too. Right now I feel like crying but I won't.

Don't wave that stick around. You will poke someones eye out. In all of history, how many kids got their eyes poked out by a stick? He didn't know one kid that had ever happened to.

He heard steps coming closer from inside the office and the door handle turned.

Jim gulped as the principle open the door and waved him in. "Come on in, Jimmy."

Jim stood on shaky legs and entered the office with his head down, fearing the worst third thing.

After a moment of silence, he looked up. His mother was standing there smiling at him. No, not only smiling, but glowing with happiness.

Maybe he had jumped the gun... how can you jump a gun?

Maybe this wouldn't turn out to be a bad day after all.