We spent the morning doing various errands in preparation for our family overnight camping trip along the river. We decided to stop at McDonald’s for a quick breakfast before heading out.
All went smoothly until the very end when I told the ladies to go wash up in the restroom as they both were wearing a fair amount of breakfast. When they returned to the table, Tate was barefoot and Cat slapped a soaking wet pair of her sister’s flip-flops down on the table directly next to my unfinished sandwich.
“Tate, why are you not wearing shoes?” I asked. “You know you are not allowed to go barefoot in a restaurant. What on earth are you thinking? Don’t you know that isn’t sanitary?” As I peppered her with questions, I grabbed the shoes.
“Well Mom, my shoes were in the toilet and I thought it would be LESS sanitary to put them back on” she replied staring at my hands that were holding the shoes in question.
“Ummmm….what?”
“My shoes fell into the the toilet, I knew you would think that was unsanitary, so I didn’t put them back on. I brought them to you instead.”
“Yes, and put them next to my breakfast. I see that now. WHY???? Why did you do that?”
“We knew you would want to wash them mommy. You know, to get the icky germs off before I put my shoes back on. But you can finish your sandwich first.”
I can’t help it, inquiring minds want to know.
How exactly did the flip-flops get into the toilet?
I thought about doing a separate post on that issue alone as I too was intrigued and a little baffled. The ladies claim that Tate was sitting on the potty and swinging her legs and did so with such force that one flew off her foot, went under the stall and hit her sister. This was tremendously amusing so she then repeated said maneuver. Cat claims that she tried to hand them back to Tate but Tate wouldn’t open the stall door so Cat chucked them over the door where they landed in the toilet.
That is their version of the events which I can neither verify nor contradict. It serves me right for letting them go to restroom alone in an attempt to gain five minutes of peace. I should know by now the very high price of five minutes of peace.