Short Story: Private Joke/r

“I didn’t know they piled crap that high!” The teacher had said that the building was tall and someone had asked and she had given a figure. A thousand feet in the air she said.

And my response – blurted out – aged 10 was almost as worrying as where I had got it from.

We’d been in Auckland and a family friend – a precocious teen – had shown me the movie F…