As usual we were late and rushing to get Ruth and Kate ready for the bus on time. I had poured every one's cereals and milk. About 30 seconds later Johnny spilled his bowl of cereal all over his lap, the table, and the floor. I was VERY UNHAPPY!!!!! (Fortunately I refrained from yelling) I did however say, "Johnny why did you do that? Get into the bath IMMEDIATELY!" Johnny replied, "It was only an accident." So I said, "That may be, but it only spilled because you laid your arms on the table. Go to the bathtub and get cleaned up." Johnny looked longly at his spilled bowl of cereal that I was mopping up and then dripped milk all the way to the bathroom.
I got the mess cleaned up and the girls onto the bus. I then placed a bowl of dry cereal and a cup of milk onto the table for Johnny when he finished his bath. I did not wait for him because I did not want to forget to give him breakfast. After a while Johnny came out washed and dressed. He sat down at the table and looked forlornly at his dry bowl of cereal. He then flopped his arms on the table the same way he had earlier and spilled his dry bowl of cereal all over himself. Rather surprised he exclaimed, "Oh!!!" I informed him that this mess was his to clean up. But while Johnny did not say anything I got the impression that he was testing to see if his arms on the table was the true cause of the spill. I think he decided that they were and he has been a little (I stress the word little) more careful since then.
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Oh my heck that exact thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. First off I had Strep, and I was so stinkin sick I could hardly get out of Bed, but mom's never get a "sick" day so yeah. Anyways, so I got James cereal, he takes one spoonful and dumped over the bowl with his arm. I cleaned the huge mess up sat him back up at the counter and gave him another bowl, two minutes later he spilled that bowl of cereal all over with his arm, I then told him he could only have it dry because I was tired of cleaning up the mess, so I gave him another bowl of cereal, by this time Harrison had finished eating and was down, So Jaems was just sitting there, not eating, and Harrison got the bowl of cereal ( I was in the bathroom) when I came out harrison had dumped out the cereal and was stomping it into the carpet. I was excessively NOT HAPPY.
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