I have on occasion been called upon to make up a bedtime story on the spot. The bedtimer is always the heroine, and I usually get a specified cast list as well. In these stories the heroine has gone to school with socks on her hands and gloves on her feet, stepped out of the crowd at half-time to play and win a football match, rescued her friend from a giant spider that lives behind the garden shed, and helped Doctor Who on his adventures with her magic wand.
The most successful stories have been the ones where the bedtimer's two cats turn into human children, or turn the bedtimer into a cat. Last night the cats came to school and took part in Sports Day. The boy/cat Toby won the running race by dropping to all fours half way when he forgot he was pretending to be human. The high-jump was a bit of failure as the cats tried to blend in and Toby ran face-first into the bar, which got a big laugh from the bedtimer. Finally they got first, second and third in the egg-and-spoon race. Girl/cat Rose would have won but she dropped her egg, so she and Toby chased it about like a cat toy leaving the bedtimer to snatch gold.
I'll have to start writing some of these down, you never know.
