Mommy was getting Ben dressed this morning; she had three shirts with her for Ben to choose from. Ben, however, was in a bit of a mood. She offered him the polar bear shirt, but was rebuked with “I don’t like polar bears!” Next up, a striped shirt. “I don’t like stripes!” She offered him the fire truck shirt, but “I don’t like fire trucks!” “That’s silly,” explained Mommy, “you love fire trucks.” (They do come right below monster trucks on his list.) But he was adamant. So she tried again, “How about the polar bear?”
“That’s not a polar bear,” he declared. “That’s a chicken!”
“Do you like chickens?”
“Yes! I do!”
And so the shirt was chosen… but when asked later, he admitted it was a polar bear (which it very much was.)
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