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As I discussed in a recent post, sometimes our adult children do things we're not proud of. It's even more painful when you catch them in the act yourself. So you can imagine my distress when I saw my beautiful little girl in a compromising position (see picture). Ok, she's 21 years old, and is normally a virtuous person of sound judgement. And we all have the occasional lapse. But you can imagine how upsetting it was for me to see her lifting the top layer of chocolates, which was still half full, so she could steal a chocolate from the bottom layer.
Me: “What are you doing?!?”
Her: "What?"
Me: "You can't take chocolates from the bottom layer! Not until we finish the top layer!"
Her: "Why not?"
Me: "It's just wrong."
Her: "It's wrong to take chocolates from a box of chocolates?"
Me: "There are right ways to do that, and there are wrong ways to do that."
She rolled her eyes, and continued her distressing behavior. Right in front of me. I've been upset ever since.
If anyone would like to chime in below, and help me explain to her why this is so wrong, I'd appreciate it. She won't listen to me. She says I'm being ridiculous. If you can imagine.
It's not easy being a father, sometimes.
I'd console myself with a piece of chocolate, but the only ones left on the top layer are yucky.
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She's not just smart but has good taste. Console yourself with that! And also, if this is the only issue you have with her, you are a very lucky father. Now, back to bourbon...
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I’m very sympathetic. I’m the one who tries a piece and hands it off to my husband if it disappoints. Mostly if it turns out to be coffee or otherwise weird or disguised as dark but really milk.
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Take the yucky piece, soak it in bourbon for an hour, then try it.
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It depends on if what you're taking from the bottom is chocolate filled with that red raspberry jelly.
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You like that stuff?
The right way to do it is buy a box of all good stuff. Get the things you like, especially from a Ricochet member.
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