As Mom looked at the ring, she plugged in the toaster. She put bread in and pushed the lever down. Suddenly, she gasped and her eyes went wide.
"oh! This damned thing!" she said, glaring at the toaster. She unplugged it, then plugged it in so the wider prong went into the left side of the plug. "If I don't remember to put the big prong on the left, I get a shock."
She pushed the lever down again, this time without mishap. Then, she looked at the ring again.
"In canis corpore transmuto?" she said aloud.
I braced myself, ready to change in front of everyone. But nothing happened.
Or, I should say, nothing happened to me.
Because, when my Mom turned around, I saw a tail growing between her blouse and her shorts.