\'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."