I gave E a bath yesterday morning. He’s still crazy about baths and usually cries when it’s time to get out. It’s hard to dry him off and get him dressed if we’re still in the bathroom because he wiggles out of my hands and tries to climb back into the sink (yep, he still fits in our huge laundry sink). So yesterday I wrapped my shrieking child in a towel and went into the family room. I set him down and picked up a diaper. He abruptly stopped crying and a split second later the silence was broken by the sound of a stream of fluid hitting something. It turned out to be my couch.
At first I thought he did it because he was mad about the bath ending but now I think it was actually just a reflex from the change in temperature between the rooms. Spiteful toddler mastermind or innocent victim of biology? I guess we’ll never know.
The other incident yesterday was entirely my fault. I took E to a farewell lunch my office was having for a coworker a local Chinese restaurant. It was during E’s normal nap time but he held himself together admirably. When it was time to leave I headed to the front counter to pay for our lunches but on the way there some people at the table pulled us aside to say hi and dote on E. My former boss wanted to chat about something so she said she would walk us to our car. We started chatting and walked outside and I got in my car and drove away–without paying for lunch.
Yep, I pulled a dine-and-dash.
I didn’t realize anything until I was emptying my pockets before bed last night and found the cash I was going to use for lunch. I am SO embarrassed. There were about twenty people in our party and so I think that someone probably ended up picking up our tab. I’m going into the office later today for a meeting and I’m going to ask around and see if who picked it up. On the way in I’m going to stop by a bakery and buy a cupcake to give them along with the cash I owe. They probably thought I was super rude for blithely leaving with picking up the tab for myself AND E. I’m so embarrassed.
Anyway, I hope you have a nice weekend. And if you go out to eat remember to pay your bill!
How mortifying. I've had both of those events happen to me, in slightly different circumstances. The dine-and-dash I was never able to make up, b/c it occurred at a motorcycle event and I never did find out who picked up my tab. The Austin letting loose happened at a friends house on their couch.
I understand your embarrassment.
Oops! That happened to me one time when we were leaving my daughter's Bday party, and I got caught up in cleaning up our stuff and gathering all of our things and making several trips to the car, only to forget to settle up the rest of the bill. They called me a few minutes later when I got home. 🙂
People totally understand, especially when you bring them a cupcake! 🙂
Ouch. Cupcakes make everything better.
Hey, for cupcakes, you can dine and dash on me anytime.
You know, I've heard about cats peeing on your furniture when they're mad… oh, and little kids. 🙂
Hee, hee! I would have died of embarassment. I'm sure your cupcake remedy will work just fine, though. Let us know how it turns out!