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December 29, 2005
Loopholes
After the following happened, Karianna asked me to make this guest post to her blog.
The Cat the other night was asking for cookies and candy for most of the day. Since he clearly had eaten enough sweets, and as it was closing in on his bedtime, we started saying "no" to the increasingly persistent Cat.
Eventually The Cat came up to me again. Looking at him, I believed he was going to ask again for cookies or candy.
So before he started I declared:
"If you are about to ask a question, the words 'cookie' or 'chocolate' better not be a part of it. Understand?"This instruction did give The Cat pause for a few seconds.
He looked at me. He looked down. I could tell his mind was working.
After a few seconds The Cat smiled. He turned back to me and asked:
"Daddy? Can I please have some white candy?"No response could have been more perfect from The Cat's point of view.
Knowing I had been outsmarted at my own game, The Cat did indeed get a piece of the white chocolate he likes.
And many shakes of the head from his his daddy.
Posted by Husband at December 29, 2005 08:17 AM
Comments
And since white chocolate isn't technically chocolate, his response was perfect. Good for The Cat.
Posted by: FlippyO at December 29, 2005 09:34 PM
Brilliant.
I've been picking up remnants of soggy cookies for weeks now - not to mention all the half eaten candy canes yanked from the tree.
Posted by: prego at December 30, 2005 11:35 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who pre-empts a question or statement from my elder child. Sometimes it works - sometimes I get outsmarted too.
Posted by: Julie at December 30, 2005 06:33 PM
Well done The Cat! Got to keep those parental units on their toes... ;-)
Posted by: Koan Bremner at January 2, 2006 03:20 AM