A Challenger Appears!

For most of the past month, Thing 1 has been putting the wife and I through the ringer with poor decision making, bad behavior and the like. All of these things forced us to come up with yet another method of punishment.

Since last week, though, she’s been very good and has started earning things back. I think Keli and I both breathed a big sigh of relief. Then it happened.

I found an empty Twinkie wrapper on Thing 1′s bookshelf, hidden between two books.

When shown the wrapper and asked to explain how it ended up between two books on her bookshelf, she, of course, claimed to know nothing about it. I have to admit, given her recent behavior, I didn’t believe her.

In the interest of being fair, I called in the boy, Thing 2. I showed him the wrapper, too, and asked him if he knew how it got onto Thing 1′s bookshelf. He also claimed ignorance.

Now, my wife loves Twinkies and her first response, when I showed her what I had found before confronting the kids, was “What?! Those little punks didn’t even share!” There was obviously no chance that she would have eaten the mini Twinkies and then planted the evidence on one of the kids.

I told the kids that one of them was clearly lying and until one of them fessed up to it, they would not get any dessert.

This was a couple of days ago and yesterday, Thing 2 came clean and as mean as it sounds, neither Keli or I actually suspected it was him, given Thing 1′s behavior lately.

When asked why he hid the wrapper on his sister’s bookshelf he said, with head held low out of shame, “Because she was already in trouble anyway.”

Touché, Little Man. Touché.

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