Could just about curl up and cry

[ailbhe]

We have an invitation to go play at someone else's house today, and I want to go, and Linnea wants to go, but Emer is asleep and Linnea won't get dressed. We're pretty much too late to go now - yes, I have called to say so - and in about twenty minutes Linnea will come downstairs, still without her shoes and socks on, and want to know why it's too late to go, and she'll cry and wake Emer up, and bah.

If Linnea was being cooperative rather than wanting to have her cake and eat it too, I could put a sleeping Emer on my back and walk us all round the corner. But she's not.

And it will, later, be All My Fault.

Again.

... that's my job.

Comments

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

I think this is one for the doctrine of pre-emption: march up there right now and have a cry at Linnea about how you really wanted to go out and play but now it's too late.

I'm not saying it'll, like, *work* or anything. But you'll get to curl up and cry, *and* it'll be funny later.

*hugs*

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

This feels like an amusing but *really bad* idea to me. :-)

[ailbhe]

I did a variant of this (because the original would be satisfying but a baaaaaaad precedent) and it worked beautifully, thank you.

That is, we're still not out, but we didn't have a screaming tantrum. Neither of us.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

-- "we didn't have a screaming tantrum"

Result! =)