Tuesday, July 7, 2009

If you Flush a Fish Down the Toilet

If a 4 year old fish dies in your house and you flush the fish down the toilet, then the toilet might get clogged and make a glug glug sound.

If your wife hears the sound and tells you in the car, then you might not remember later on to take care of the problem before the night time routine begins.

Then if you wait too late at night to make dinner when your wife is out, then you might have to deal with bathroom time and cook at the same time.

If you sit your littlest on the potty to go and then leave to grill some chicken then your littlest son might sit for a long time and decide to flush before he is finished.

If he flushes before he is finished then the toilet might overflow and you will hear screaming while you are trying to finish grilling the chicken.

If you hear screaming you might run to the bathroom to see your child standing in very unmentionable stuff, and you might tell him to get into the bathtub and wait until you clean up the mess. While you are working on cleaning up the mess, you might smell burning and realize that there is chicken on your grill.

When you realize your dinner is being burned beyond recognition, you might run to the grill and discover that one set of grilled chicken is now being chewed on by the dogs in the yard and that the breasts grilling are charred.

While you get the chicken off the grill to prevent a fire, you might hear something smash and break in the bathroom. You will hear your child say- Uh Oh. I'm sorry. It was an accident.

You will run into the bathroom to find that your youngest child has gotten thirsty and asked his older brother for orange juice.

The older brother will get o.j. for his sibling in a fragile glass and somehow bypass the remaining yuck on the floor and hand it to him while still in the tub.

Being in the tub and slippery, the glass will fall and break in the tub where your child is standing barefoot.

So now in a matter of a few short minutes, you have to clean yuckiness off a floor, glass out of a bathtub, safely transport your child to the other bathroom for a bath and you have lost your dinner.

When all this is done you will call your wife when she is on her way home and ask for Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper and twinkies.

3 comments:

SaraToday said...

Excellent guest post. I look forward to hearing more from the pater familias.

Anonymous said...

Hi Angela! Just stopping by to see what you're up to. Enjoy your summer!
Becki

Sharon said...

WOW! What a day!

(The writing sounds so much like Laura Numeroff's, "If You Give A Mouse a Cookie").