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The Bouncy Castle Went Down With Eleven On Board
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The Bouncy Castle Went Down With Eleven On Board
It was supposed to be a simple party in Karen. Then the generator for the bouncy castle stopped and the castle began to fold, slowly, with eleven children inside and one of them still bouncing.
- How a grandmother in a kitenge led the evacuation while the dads filmed
- The child who refused to leave because he was winning
- The class WhatsApp group: 212 messages, 40 of them about a lunchbox
- Listener voice notes: a dad whose twins swapped names for a whole school term
- What Wanjiru ate in the car park afterwards, in detail
Send your week to Wanjiru and she will read it, probably while hiding from her children.
Transcript
Good morning, good morning. I am Wanjiru Kamau, this is The School Run Chronicles, and I am speaking to you from the car park outside my daughter's school because it is the only place nobody asks me for anything. Today's story is the birthday party in Karen. Everything was fine. There was cake, there was juice, there was a bouncy castle, and then the generator for the bouncy castle decided it had done enough. The castle started to fold. Slowly. With eleven children inside. And one of them, I will not say whose, kept bouncing. A grandmother in a kitenge took charge while the fathers filmed, and I am going to tell you exactly how it ended. Then the class WhatsApp group, which is a crime scene. Eat your samosa, you deserve it. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts!
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