Sam is feeling a little under the weather today. He wanted some tea, but one of the great things about having bigger kids is that they can get their own dang tea.
Except . . .
"Mom? Where is the tea?"
"It's in the little cupboard right next to the fridge."
*five minutes later*
"Mom? It's not there."
I am 5000 percent sure that the tea is in the little cupboard right next the fridge. I know it is there because I put it there because of course I put it there because it has never occurred to anybody else in this house to put anything away ever. I am so sure that it is in the tiny cupboard next to the fridge that if someone offered me a bet wherein if I am right, and it is in the tiny cupboard next to the fridge I get a dollar, and if I am wrong the whole world just explodes, I would take that bet.
"Sam, go look again. Look at the fridge. Look in every smallish cupboard that is in any proximity to the fridge. I promise you, the tea is in there."
*five minutes later*
"Mom? It's really not there."
SURPRISE TWIST ENDING!
It was in the tiny cupboard next to the fridge.
"Oh, THAT little cupboard!" he says.
Yes, the one right next to the fridge.
What I need you to understand about this cupboard, though, is that it is both small, and COMPLETELY (other than tea) EMPTY. There is LITERALLY nothing else in the entire tiny cupboard. It is a stupid tiny cupboard, nothing fits. That's why I was happy about the tea. Now it's a classy tea cupboard. It has a purpose. But the point is that it's truly not as if I found the tea pushed behind an old box of crackers or something. All I did was open the door.
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ReplyDeleteI am going to guess that little cupboard is contained in a temporal anomaly and disappears from our current space/time continuum on a inconsistent basis. Or it is camouflaged and looks just like the wall.
ReplyDeleteThis is just another example of a father raising his boys proper.
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