Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Tribulations of the Water Kind

This is one of my mom’s favorite stories. It is one of Pan's family favorites as well, at least now it is. Pan’s dad was in the Navy. Yep we are a big military family here. He was transferred to NW Florida and they decided to buy a house. Pan was 4 at the time and the youngest of 5 children. All of the others were old enough to help with the unpacking, but not Pan.

It was a pretty hot day and after a while someone thought to ask Pan to bring them a glass of water. Yippee, something he could do to help. It is hard to be 4 years old and not to be able to help out. Off he runs and comes back with a glass of water. Soon everyone wanted a glass of water, and this 4-year was happy to oblige.

After a while he had to tell someone he couldn’t bring him or her any more water. When asked why not, he told them the toilet bowl was empty. According to him, he would like to know where they expected a child his age to get water. He couldn’t reach the sink. Everyone really enjoyed it until they found out where it came from, then they all turned green.

They were just lucky he hadn’t figured out how to flush the toilet or think about the other two toilets in the house. He guesses the ceramic bowl helped keep the water nice and cool.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

EW!

Glynis said...

Gross! But it makes a great family story...no one's going to forget THAT one!!

loonyhiker said...

Ewwwwwwwwwww! I will NEVER ask a 4 year old to ever get me anything to eat or drink!!!!

Mrs_Who said...

Holy crap (pun intended) that's funny!

faery-wings said...

aaaaahhhhhh! OMG that was so funny!!!!!
ROTFL and thankful I wasn't there. *giggle*

Anonymous said...

ROTFL... every time I hear this (and now read it) I have to laugh out loud. Very funny.