Date: Boxing Day
Scene: Piper Kitchen
Discovered on the floor: Northern Piper and Piper Cub, putting together a radio controlled car from Santa
Cub : The car takes AA batteries. We’ve got a big packet of those!
Cub runs and gets AA batteries; the two install them in the car.
Piper: Now the remote. Let’s open it.
Business with screwdriver .
Cub : What kind of battery goes in there, Daddy? AA and AAA won’t fit.
Piper : That takes a special 9 volt battery. Sort of like a cube.
Cub, disappointed voice : Aw, we don’t have any of those!
Piper : Actually, I just happen to have one of those batteries in my pocket.
Piper fishes a 9 bolt battery from his pants pocket and installs it in the remote.
Piper: There! It works!
Cub, in a meditative tone : Daddy, why did you have that kind of battery in your pocket?
Piper, sensing a trap : At this time of year, all Dads carry batteries around for just this sort of emergency.
Cub : Are you sure you’re not Santa?
So was “bona fifes” a typo or deliberate?
Sigh . My iPhone obviously doesn’t speak Latin.
But it matches your username!
Fixed.
/moderating
This story is adorable, but if you’re not Santa, why did you have that 9v in your pocket? :dubious:
He was happy to see someone?
enipla
December 29, 2017, 8:09pm
7
I’m sure it’s a rare thing um… Santa, but be very careful carrying a 9v in your pocket if you have anything else like change or keys in your pocket. Can short it out.
“Mommy has toys too, son.”
StG
LSLGuy
December 29, 2017, 9:41pm
10
Yeah, but those usually take D cells. More diameter. And heft.
Be careful there Piper . The Force is strong in that one. Some day he will be strong and you will be feeble. Train him well.
Lawyer genes. Waddayagonnado?
Only a 9V battery. Can’t have been all that happy.
Asked and answered, My Lady:
Northern_Piper:
Cub, in a meditative tone : Daddy, why did you have that kind of battery in your pocket?
Piper, sensing a trap : At this time of year, all Dads carry batteries around for just this sort of emergency.
Well, he did fight Darth Vader to a draw at the Jedi Training Centre at Disney World.
I’ve told him that I do my best to treat him well so that he chooses a nice old folks home for me eventually.
I was talking about him with another parent a while ago and commented approvingly that the Cub is good at arguing. She looked at me like I had a hole in my head. I remembered that “arguing” has a different meaning for lawyers than most parents.
