Wayne Berry is guest posting today for me — a different kind of post than his usual stuff over here.
Four Year Old: “Why do I have to scrap my plate in the garbage can?”
Me:
If we don’t scrap our plates and we leave them on the counter mice will come up from our basement and eat the food off the plates. Then they will think that this is a good place to live and have babies. However, there will not be enough food for them and their babies – so they will sneak into our rooms at night a nibble on us. Soon they will get so desperate that they will saw open our heads and eat our brains. This grey matter will give them super intelligence and they will master rocket science and weapons. From there they can launch surface to surface missiles destroying our neighbors and adding them to their food supply. They then will have more super intelligent babies and those children will march upon our town, our state and our nation. That is why we need to scrape our plates.
Four year old in an exasperated voice: “Ooooookkk”
You are really clever. You just explained politics and how we got where we are today. She will understand in the years to come. Well done. And she did her part to avoid further turmoil and scraped her dish. Love it.