小天使(216)-劫持自己的孩子

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by 冰溪
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'Are You Kidnapping Us?'

Daddy has been working night shifts and the weather has been brutally hot, so today I made a deal with the kids at the dinner table: "If you guys finish the Chinese food in your bowls, I will take you to eat water ice after dinner."

"Yeah!" they screamed and then shoveled the food down their throats, well, sort of.

We headed out pretty late and without thinking I just drove to the one water ice store I knew. It got dark within like five minutes and I realized that this store was kind of far away.

So I said: "We should have just gone to the little town right down the road, I bet they have water ice there."

Olivia replied: "Mommy, since we are already here, let's just go to the
store you know."

After driving another five minutes in the dark realizing we still had one third the way to go, I murmured: "Man, I forgot how far away this place is."

Olivia didn't like the darkness and the fact that we were still not there, so she asked: "Mommy, are you lost?"

"No, honey, I am not lost. I know exactly where we are. It's just that this place is still ways to go."

Not convinced that we were not lost, Olivia suddenly asked me: "Mommy, are you kidnapping us?"

Huh??? Me? Kidnapping my own children?

"Of course I am not kidnapping you guys. Olivia, do you know what "kidnap" means?" I asked.

"Yeah, let me tell you what I think kidnap is. When the adults take the
kids somewhere, they drive and drive but they get lost, and the kids start to get worried. That means the kids

are kidnapped because they can't go where they want to go."

[asalways]

哈哈哈，笑壞了，KIDS很有權威啊。

[海鷗飛處]

In that sense, I did a few times too. ;-)

[小樹苗]

Ha,ha,ha....! Kids are the cutest thing. Love Olivia!