A Cup of Tea

Courtesy of Ali...


One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me.

I was maybe 2 1/2 years old and had just recovered from an accident. Someone had given me a little tea set as a get-well gift and it was one of my favorite toys.

Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when I brought him a little cup of “tea”, which was in fact just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such “yummy tea”, my Mom came home.

My Dad made her wait in the living room to watch me bring him a cup of tea, because he thought it was ”just the cutest thing ever!' My mom waited, and sure enough, I came down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy-- she watched him drink it up.

She waited for a moment, smiling. Then she says, as only a mother would know... “Did it ever occur to you that the only place your daughter can reach to get water is the toilet?”