overheard at health & human services: revisionist history lesson
Wednesday 31 January 2007 | I like a cookie
Jade [about four years old, standing in front of gumball machine, outraged]: Look what happened!
Jade’s dad: What?
Jade: I wanted that one!
Jade’s dad [shrugs]: You don’t get your pick.
Jade: But this isn’t the one I wanted!
Jade’s dad: Well, they pick for you. You get what they give you.
[Jade’s dad walks away. A beat, then Jade follows.]
Jade [half-shouting, with determined merriment]: I got the one I wanted! I like this one! This is the one I picked!
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