We sat down to dinner last night at a friends. Their child is all grow’d up. Well, in college anyway. So our kids were stand-ins for the evening. When the lass sat down, she saw an awful site on her plate.
Two slices of cooked carrots. Sitting their. Steaming. Delicious. (To everyone else at least.) She raised her voice to file a complaint.
The Wife immediately intoned “You have 2 pieces of carrot. One for each eye. OK?”
This caught the lass so flat footed, that she sat that staring at the Wife for what seemed like minutes, but in reality was only a few moments. Then, she cheerily replied “OH, OK Mom,” like the Wife’s statement was so obvious that the lass couldn’t believe she’d missed the connection. Of course there were 2 carrots- she had 2 eyes! DUH!
I had to applaud the faultless delivery and timing of the Wife’s comment. It’s just a rare event where the lass is stopped cold in her tracks like that. Rarer still that she actually ends up doing something she isn’t to keen on to begin with.
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Advantage: Mom !!