“We don’t even know if there’s life on Mars,” the teacher explained, “let alone people having evolved there. Don’t you mean that your cousins, the Martins, are coming to stay?”
But Leah was adamant. “The Martians are coming, and they’re going to stay for a whole week in my house.”
“That girl is living in cuckoo land,” declared the teacher at a staff meeting. “She’s a crackpot. I haven’t met the parents but she’s got to get her looney-ness from somewhere. I’m sure she means that Mr and Mrs Martin, whoever they might be, are coming to stay.”
“Just remember,” said the school principal to the staff, “that she’s off her rocker but we must treat her as normal.”
“She’s away with the fairies. She said she’ll bring the Martians to school next Wednesday. The whole school’s going to see she’s three fries short of a happy meal.”
Wednesday came. Did the teachers have to eat humble pie or what?
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