Playing It Safe

Journaling Reads:
“David, do you want to go to bed?”

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“No!”

“David, do you want to stay up?”

“No”

“David, do you want to play all night?”

“No”

“David do you want some blue berries?”

(…pause…)

“Yea!”

You still don’t understand most of what I say so I love playing
the “No” game with you. No matter what I ask, you just say no. It
doesn’t matter if I say two sentences that are exact opposites.
Your rule of thumb is to never agree to anything you don’t
understand. Until you recognize a word, at which point the answer
becomes an enthusiastic “Yes!”

Little David, I know that you will soon understand everything I
say and these games will disappear forever. I wanted to make sure
we saved the memory so we could look back years later and laugh at
your clever way of playing it safe.