The Bean (nearly 3 now) returns to kindergarten tomorrow, after three weeks break that have more or less coincided with all the snow and ice here in Flatchester. Dora has been feeling the cold, and has also sometimes found it hard to think of enough things for her and him to do together while I've been at work. Usually the reported activities consist of swimming at the gym, visits to and from friends, shopping, trips to the Botanical Garden and so on.
Early this morning, however, I had a conversation with The Bean which cast a rather different light on things. The following is as near verbatim as I can remember.
Bean: Daddy drink beer!
Trimorph: No, I don't drink beer in the mornings, because it makes me sleepy.
Bean: That's a shame.
Trimorph: I drink tea in the mornings, water at lunchtime, and water or beer in the evenings. What do you drink?
Bean: I drink beer all day long!
Trimorph (startled): Do you? Do you drink it at home?
Bean: No, I go to the pub.
Trimorph: Really? You go to the pub by yourself?
Bean: No, I go with Mummy!
When confronted with a report of this dialogue, Dora was unable even to fashion a coherent denial, instead opening and closing her mouth in a manner somewhat reminiscent of a fish.
Regular readers of this blog, if there are any, will I'm sure be awaiting any further revelations with interest.
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Kim doc 3
5 years ago
3 comments:
Dora has been rumbled at last!
Well a semi-regular reader laughed warmly at this.
If life wasn´t
1) SO pressured
and
2) I had a printer (hate reading longer material from a screen!)
I think there would be two regular readers here.
Thank you, both!
I have to report that the pressure is now off Dora to an extent. In front of four adult witnesses, The Bean recently made the following clear and categorical statements:
(1) He never drinks beer.
(2) He never goes to the pub.
So now we just have to decide which version of events is the more plausible.
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