#8
Distracting the Miss by letting her push futilely at the vending machine buttons while trying to listen to the sermon while on our church’s family floor, I thank my lucky stars she didn’t ask me to buy something……………… prematurely.
Miss: Pess. Pesss… Pess. Pesss…
<pause>
Miss: <indicates Octopus card reader> Zap. ….<looks up at me> Zap. Pesss.
Me: But there’s nothing I want from this machine, darling.
Miss: <persuasively> Try. Try.
Me: – to want something from here? Coke, Coke Lite, Schweppes Lemon…… No really, darling, there’s nothing I want from this machine. And nothing you should either.
Miss: <persuasively> Try.
(So we find another machine with dried strawberries. This is her showing off her strawberry stains from the freeze-dried fruit she purchased.)
Yay! for the machine with dried strawberries so Miss Rockstar gets to do a purchase at last. 🙂
Yeah they should do more wholesome foods in vending machines; the whole Octopus card-purchasing of eats is SO motivational to toddlers!