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Thursday, January 18, 2007

It's Not About the Doughnut

A couple nights ago I had the unfortunate experience of being pick-pocketed while grocery shopping. I believe it happened when I was digging through all the jars of Beechnut baby food that were on sale. My bag was in the cart, and I obviously wasn't paying close attention to the cart because I was digging through the tiny glass jars without dropping any on the ground. Yet another totally random skill that parenting has allowed me to master. When I finished, I began pushing my cart again, and a minute or two later I realized my bag was wide open and my wallet was missing.


Trying to be Triple C (Calm, Cool and Collected), I immediately informed the manager of the situation, and let him know where I was putting my cart so that I could go search my car just in case my wallet had fallen out while I was dragging my bag out (hey, it took me a while to collect all those groceries). Alas, my wallet was not in sight. I called my husband to cancel my credit cards, and a police officer came to the grocery store to get my statement. Then to top it off, my husband had to go back to the grocery store to pick up and pay for my attempted purchases because I didn't have a wallet! Anyhow, holding it together for that long took its toll, so I asked my husband to throw in a box of Entenmann's doughnuts as long as he was going to the grocery store anyhow.

The next day my older son (OS) spotted the box and requested a doughnut. I put it on a plate for him. Then I set about making a gazillion phone calls to the bank, insurance company (our insurance cards were in my wallet) etc. I didn't notice that the plate with OS's barely touched doughnut (how could we possibly be related) had made its way onto the ottoman in our living room.

Our golden retriever, Gandalf, had mysteriously failed to jump on the treat as soon as it was placed within his reach (how could we possibly be related). However, he recovered faster than OS, and just as I looked up, I saw Gandalf snatch the doughnut off of OS's plate, drop it on the floor, and gobble it up. OS was upset. I went over to him, rubbed his back and explained to him that Gandalf claims any food at nose level as his own. Apparently the lost doughnut was not why OS was upset. Why was he upset? "Gandalf didn't use a plate!!!" Hmmmm...

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: There's a lot about parenting that isn't obvious.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 11:02 PM   2 comments
2 Comments:

  • At 1/19/2007 12:42 PM, Blogger super des said…

    You should make sure that OS know it's not ok for doggies to steal food even if they do use a plate...

     

  • At 1/22/2007 1:41 AM, Anonymous Suzanne said…

    Sorry about the wallet. It sounds like a very unpleasant saga. However, that line about Gandalf not using a plate? Priceless. Who needs MasterCard when you can have these moments at home?

     
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