Scene I (last Thursday)
BD: I need materials to make a bug in science.
BGM: Well, what do you need?
BD: Styrofoam balls, about this big (indicating about 2″). And Popsicle sticks.
BGM: We have some craft sticks. So do you need me to buy anything besides the styrofoam balls?
BD: No, that’s it. I have to take them in on Monday.
Scene II (in the car on Saturday)
BGM: After we drop you at the movies, Dad & I are going to get your bug supplies. Do you need anything besides those styrofoam balls?
BD: No.
BGM: You sure?
BD: Oh, yes, I’m sure.
Scene III (at home on Sunday)
BD: We need to go to the store. I need pipe cleaners and markers for my project.
(Pipe cleaners were eventually found among the art supplies in the pantry, and BD admitted that she had some markers at school she could use. Good thing, since I was NOT going back to the store.)
Scene IV (Monday morning)
BGM: BD, do you have everything you need for school?
BD: Yes.
BGM: You have your social studies papers? (They were overdue)
BD: Yes!
BGM: You have your bug supplies?
BD (more irritated by the minute): Yes, Mom!
Scene V (half an hour later, via telephone):
BD (probably glad she got the voicemail instead of a live Mama): Mom, I forgot some of my supplies for my project. Can you bring them to school?
3 Comments
ARGH! That sounds so familiar! I’m usually told the night before that someone needs supplies for a project. Luckily that someone now has her license, so she can go get them herself!
I remember those calls…and the ire when my answer was “no.”
OY! Good thing you were just sitting around eating bon-bons, huh? Oh man… my day will come on all of this stuff.
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