"you'll never believe what happened to me today," mom said to me as she walked through the door of our house. "it's a long story, but it's really important that you should hear about it, as it involves you, too."

You'll never believe what happened to me today," Mom said to me as she walked through the door of our house. "It's a long story, but it's really important that you should hear about it, as it involves you, too."

From this beginning, what can the reader presume will happen next?

A)Mom will gossip about the neighbors.  

B)Mom will talk about her plans for the coming day.  

C)Mom will tell her story in a flashback sequence.  

D)Mom will decline to tell her story.

a pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out of his pants.

bartender: isn't that uncomfortable?

pirate: arrgh! it's drivin' me nuts!