I walked in the door after having been gone all day, and was greeted by The Happiest Little Girl Ever, who jumped into my arms, and promptly slammed the top of her head against my chin.   I wonder how many parents bite off part of their tongue this way?   Top of the head is the hardest part in the human body, so who do you think got the worst of this?   As I was rubbing my jaw and trying not to make The Happiest Little Girl Ever feel bad for wanting to hug me, I said “You rang my bell sweetheart.”

She said “Daddy you don’t have a bell.”

Further deconstructions of colorful idioms became somewhat pointless.

PS: this could, technically, be a tweet.   Except I refuse to Twitter.   And I could not use smileys like this one: