This Calls For A Party!

[twilightpony]

We had Trixie over for breakfast and it wasn't hard to convince both Starlight and Trixie to come join me at the spa. We arrived there around mid-morning, earlier than Rarity or Fluttershy, so we didn't wait for them. We had our hooficures together but after the massage we split up. They wanted a seaweed wrap with a mud facial and I was not ready for that yet. It reminds me too much of being trapped helpless in a cocoon and those scars are still fresh. Floating in a hot tub was out of the question and even the thought of the sauna made me claustrophobic. So instead I indulged in a Crystal Empire oil bath. That was a lot of work for the spa ponies because my winter coat has fully grown in. They were combing the fragrant oil out of my fur for quite a while before they were satisfied with the result. Now my body just shines with every hair, I smell great and I feel so clean! If a changeling tries to grab me, it will slide right off. Ha!

They told me that the Sunset Festival went very well and that they had had a great time. Trixie put on a magic show and directed the closing fireworks display. Trixie is a self-professed expert on fireworks.

We stepped out of the spa a few hours later, three fresh, relaxed ponies, all shiny and clean, and right into an open air surprise party for our two rescuers. Pinkie must have been planning this since we got back, but still, she works really fast. The party was for Discord too. He showed up fashionably late and proceeded to pretend, badly, that he didn't care for the adulation. Pinkie had sent an invitation to Thorax, but he's very busy figuring out how to be Hive Leader and how to keep Chrysalis from stealing the nymphs away before they're old enough to metamorphosize.

At the party, Pinkie, Rarity and Applejack each told me at different times over the course of the afternoon, that they had heard that I had given a particularly boring lecture on axes that had lasted the better part of an hour, that I had recited several chapters from some obscure book and that I had put the whole Hay Board to sleep. I did nothing of the sort! My explanation was short, succinct and to the point and had nothing to do with axes! Nopony seems to believe me. Next time I'm going to use a chalk board and distribute notes.

Comments

[borglord]

You'd think that distributing notes would make the rumors mutate less, but you'd be wrong. Notes will only make them tune out more quickly, which will ensure they don't read the notes.

[twilightpony]

Maybe if I told them there would be a test. Except that didn't work with Rainbow Dash and she really did have a Wonderbolt Reserves Entrance Exam to study for. What would you suggest? The three principles of public speaking (anecdotal tales, numerical data and physical props)?

[borglord]

I think you have to learn to accept that sometimes ponies are just not interested in any explanation over a couple of sentences, no matter what you do. I do not think there are any techniques that could make the Hay Board care what a portmanteau is or how it differs from a contraction, since it is completely irrelevant to the matters they had come to discuss.

Or, alternately, accept that if you indulge the ponies who do take an interest with a detailed explanation, there will inevitably be others who are thoroughly bored and will later exaggerate everything (and potentially accidentally mix in some of their daydreams as well).

[twilightpony]

I think you make good points. Thus ever pony nature; each to their strengths, to each their interests.

[flareblitzfury]

Nice to hear you all relaxed well! Yeah! That'll be good!