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Edrick: Mom, why do you have this thingy on your bed thingy?
Mommy: What thingy? *not looking because she is in the walk-in closet*
Edrick: This red thingy on your bed.
Mommy: *pokes her head out to see what red thingy she has on her bed* Oh, that’s a bedspread, Monch.
Edrick: Yeah! The bedspread thingy. Why do you have the bedspread thingy on your bed thingy?
Mommy: *knows where this ‘thingy’ business comes from, thinks it’s very Spies Girls, and knows she has one Spy Girl in her house* Well, that’s what Daddy got me for Christmas. It makes the bed look nice, don’t you think?
Edrick: Yeah! It looks nice. But what does the beadspread thingy do, Mom?
Mommy: It makes the bed comfortable.
Edrick: Oh! If you don’t put it on, it’s not comfortable?
Mommy: It is. But it is more comfortable.
Edrick: What happens if you don’t put it on, Mom?
Mommy: Nothing happens.
Edrick: You won’t be comfortable?
Mommy: I will. It’s still comfortable even when the bedspread’s not on.
Edrick: Then, you don’t need it?
Mommy: Well… I don’t need it. You’re right. But I want it on my bed. It feels nice.
Edrick: That’s why Daddy gave it to you? You wanted it?
Mommy: No. I didn’t want it. It’s a gift. He wanted to give it to me. I didn’t ask for it.
Edrick: But why did Daddy want to give it to you if you didn’t want it?
Mommy: I didn’t say I didn’t want it. I said I didn’t ask for it. Daddy was being nice. He got me the bedspread to make me more comfortable than before.
Edrick: But I want my bed to be comfortable too.
Mommy: *thinks she knows where the conversation is going* But your bed is already comfortable.
Edrick: No, it’s not! I need a bedspread thingy to make it comfortable.
Mommy: No, you don’t.
Edrick: Yes, I do.
Mommy: No, you don’t. If it’s too comfortable, you don’t wanna get up and get out of bed then.
Edrick: *looks at Mommy and quickly reconsiders as he knows he is very much a morning person* Never mind!
Mommy: *goes ‘Huh?’ again as she is gearing up and getting ready for a tug-of-bedspread-war with her sunny-side-up son, potentially fighting for the red bedspread thingy*
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Aunty Enida,
I like your thingy too. Mama’s has put on this thingy with roses design on her bed and I like it. It made her bed becomes very very comfortable too. And I’m lying on it now while writing this. purrr….meow!
Ha tu lah tu! That thingy is what happens when he either layan Kakak, or Mommy bercakap. Spicy tak spicy sudoh nye. Hehe…