Players: Brad, Gus, Ruby
Location: Kitchen, Breakfast Time
After pouring cereal out for the
kids, Brad begins making breakfast for The Wife and himself.
Gus mostly ignores his food and
watches Brad turn the burner on under a tea kettle and pull out fixings for
oatmeal.
Gus sees a bag of raisins come out of
the cupboard: "DAT! Eye want sum ov DAT!" {See here, I do believe that the
inclusion of that particular item will make my dining experience far more
enjoyable. Bring it to me.}
Brad, who has been unable to speak
for several days due to strained vocal chords, gives Gus one of the The Looks: Politeness
Gus sits back in his chair a bit as The
Look rolls over him: “Peas?”
Brad smiles and nods, bringing over
the bag of raisins and dropping a small handful into Gus’s cereal. Seeking to
quell any possible eruptions, Brad does the same with Ruby’s cereal.
Brad turns to put the raisins away as
Ruby eyes the lump of dried grapes now sitting atop her partially eaten cereal:
“BUT DADDIE!” She glances back and forth between her food and her father. “I
don’t want them.”
Brad reaches up and puts away the
raisins, giving Ruby a quizzical glance over his shoulder.
Ruby: “I don’t want these raisins,
they are making my food yucky.”
Brad turns, makes a sympathetic face,
puts a loving hand on Ruby’s head. He points with the other and makes a
scooping motion toward his mouth.
Ruby starts to flounce around in the
partially kneeling position she regularly sits in: “NO, I don’t want them, they are yucky.”
Brad grabs the tablet computer and
opens up an app. After a few moments of typing, Steven Hawking says: “But RooBee, You are
ee-ting Ray Sin Bran.”
Ruby: “But these are different
raisins, I don’t want them.”
Seeing that this is about to become A
Thing, Brad randomly pulls raisins out
of Ruby’s cereal bowl. Once he has ten or so, he makes the ‘There you go’
gesture.
Ruby: “The yucky raisins are out now?”
Brad rolls his eyes, and
simultaneously nods and shakes his head.
Ruby picks up her spoon and begins to
eat; Brad pops the offensive raisins into his mouth.
As Brad turns back to the counter,
Gus points at his bowl: “Eye don’t want them inn deh.”
Brad spins around dumbfounded and
throws his hands up. He gives Ruby a ‘This is your fault’ look, which she doesn’t
notice as she shovels raisin bran into her face. Brad picks out yet more random
raisins, and is about to eat them when Gus points at the small pile of raisins
in Brad’s hand.
Gus: “Eye want dem.” {Oh, you misunderstand. I want those
raisins, just not in my cereal. THOSE are my special raisins. Hand them over.}
Brad sighs and drops them on the
place mat. Gus reaches for them and shoves them all in his mouth simultaneously.
Brad gives Gus The Look:Politeness
Gus, mouthful of raisins: “Vnk Mnn.”
