Jamie gives Connor a pretty hard time. He wins every game they play, every race they run and is perpetually correcting how Connor plays, sings, talks and quotes movies (an important skill around here). Connor's opportunities for revenge are few and to be honest he's such a good-natured little fellow, and adores Jamie so much, that he rarely takes them.
A few days ago, however, the bath afforded an opportunity for a little gentle payback. Jamie has this squirty fish he plays with in the bath. He likes to set up targets and knock them down. Connor very rarely gets to use the fish. In this case Jamie tried to soften the blow for Connor by telling him he would be the judge in Jamie's game. Actually this was somewhat sensitive because his impulse would initially have been to have a squirt fight with Connor, which the latter would inevitably lose. The game was to squirt a particular tile on the wall from some distance. Jamie would get points for hitting it and the tile would get points if he missed and Connor would judge whether the tile had been hit.
Jamie, making some gesture to give Connor a stake in the game, asked how many ("how much" in Jamie speak) points he would get for hitting the tile. "Ummmm....Forty!!!" answered Connor. Then Jamie asked how many points the tile would get if he missed. I could see Connor's mind working but was surprised when he said, "Ummmm.... Two...hundred...and.... fifty-thousand!!! Jamie didn't quite know what to make of this and so pressed on, only to discover that within moments, even after some fairly accurate squirting, he was down 500,000 points to 120. He proclaimed "Connoo!!! That's not fair!" With a rather enormous grin, Connor answered, "Yes it is! That's why I'm the judge."
2 comments:
Seems fair to me based on what he's learned about "Fair" from an older brother!
I could tell a cautionary tale about a younger brother who grew up to be bigger...
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