Day 7 - I Didn’t Do It. Honest.
This morning I rolled out of bed, came downstairs and was greeted by my husband who had coffee already brewing (Yay!).
He looks at me seriously, walks up to me, looks searchingly into my eyes and asks, "Honey. Did you eat the ice cream?"
Damn. He was looking at me like I was a recovering crack addict and happened to find a pipe in the bathroom. (I have no clue what crack addicts use and where….is the pipe in the bathroom plausible??).
"No. I didn’t eat the ice cream", I reply. How dare he accuse ME of all people of eating the ice cream.
He told me how he found the ice cream scoop with melted ice cream pooled at the bottom of it in the dishwasher this morning and a bowl in the sink with remnants of vanilla ice cream inside.
He’s a friggin Sherlock Holmes over here.
So I blamed it on our oldest son, who denied it, but we know he did it because he has a tendency to use the opportunity to sneak the junk food when everyone else is sleeping in the morning.
Why is there ice cream in my house, you might be asking. Leftovers from my daughter’s birthday. Plus, the kids get dessert every Sunday, so I keep a thing or two like that in the house.
And then it got me thinking: There has been ice cream in the freezer for over a week and I never thought about it a single time. Pretty cool.
I have a public service announcement:
Please PLEASE respect the workhorse of your grocery shopping experience. Put the shopping carts back in their corral so they don’t wander off. They could sustain serious damage. Please respect the shopping cart.
Cart Whisperer - World PremiereBreakfast: 1 whole egg, 3 egg whites
whole wheat toast
1-2 cups of coffee w/ milk
Snack: 10 almonds
Lunch: Ground turkey
1 cup mixed vegetables
spinach salad
Snack: apple
Dinner: Mahi mahi
steamed spinach
October 26, 2008 at 7:41 am
My 13 year old will deny anything he presumes may get him into trouble until death…I swear, you can catch him holding the smoking gun right after he threatens to and subsequently does kill an innocent ground squirrel, ask him if he did it, and he would deny any knowledge, involvement or thoughts towards the crime…..teenagers I guess….I still try to blame him for any bad smells that may just happen to arise while we are all watching TV, however….
October 26, 2008 at 8:04 am
Haha - My wife and I have both been guilty of trying to sneak the "melted ice cream covered spoon" into the dishwasher - without the other noticing - Classic!
As for the cart guy - hilarious! Used to work at a grocery store when I was a teenager - had a guy who would collect our carts like that - bring them back and we would give him $2 a cart. Im positive he would send kids in to kidnap carts for him and hide them out somewhere for him though
October 26, 2008 at 8:06 am
You could’ve gotten the cart whisperer to do it for free. It’s his passion.
October 26, 2008 at 8:06 am
That was hilarious!!! Congrats on not eating the ice cream!!! Great blog! Made my morning..I am off to the gym!
October 26, 2008 at 8:25 am
Yes!!! GJ knows all about this! No, I’m serious… Our last apartment we were on the ground level and I kept saying we need to get a shopping cart to help shuttle out the trash. One day, there it was! Perfectly good shopping cart, abandoned by the dumpster. You bet I gave that cart a warm loving home! (The cat also found it an amusing play toy, by the way). It made me very very sad when we moved and had to leave the little pet cart behind…
October 26, 2008 at 8:54 am
You ate the ice cream, and went an blamed it on the boy didn’t you? Admit it…..
October 26, 2008 at 9:11 am
A smart ice cream sneaker would have quietly washed out the scoop and put it away. Either the culprit was lazy or wanted to be caught. TIme to call CSI!
October 26, 2008 at 9:52 am
Bodybytwa,
See, that’s what I would’ve done, haha. So it goes to show that I wasn’t the one!
October 26, 2008 at 11:25 am
You totally wash the ice cream scoop and bowl out quietly and place in dishwasher (scoop goes put back in the drawer, of course). AMATEUR! Had to be the kid
CONGRATS on avoiding the ice cream. You are a much stronger woman than I.
October 26, 2008 at 11:25 am
You totally wash the ice cream scoop and bowl out quietly and place in dishwasher (scoop goes put back in the drawer, of course). AMATEUR! Had to be the kid
CONGRATS on avoiding the ice cream. You are a much stronger woman than I. I could blame my cat, but it’s not plausible unless I get the ice cream out first lol
October 26, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Thank God for the cart whisperer. It’s is nice to know he’s helping them get off the streets.
October 26, 2008 at 2:34 pm
LOL> ELEMENTARY MY DEAR SHANNON. Your cravings have passed down a generation. Your denial of cheat meal have manifested in a a spirit of secret endevours that young. Quite simple my dear. You should know better.