So here’s the scene. The girls and Red are out in the backyard playing on the playscape while Jenny goes in and out grilling steaks.
Livy (entering house crying): “She stole my stick and she won’t give it back.”
Daddy walks out the back door and sees Molly sitting proudly at the top of the slide with a stick.
Daddy: “Molly give it back.”
Livy: “Not Molly. Red took my stick!”
Daddy: “Calm down. Did you trade try to trade her for a different one?”
Red happily upgraded to a bigger stick. Crisis averted.
res ipsa locquitur…..”the thing speaks for itself”
Molly has to have a big mouth as noted in the earlier post because when there is a family problem, she is automatically thought to be the problem, and even the dog was offered a trade while Molly was just supposed to give up her stick. The world is so unfair to the free spirit. Go Molly.