The scene: Dinner, in the kitchen, Friday night. We’re having a frozen pizza.
I cut the pizza into 8 slices as normal. I bring it to the table. Kevin takes 2 slices for himself. I give a slice to Emily. Kevin gives a slice to Sam. Kevin begins to cut up Sam’s piece, because she always wants it cut up. I take a piece for myself and start eating.
Kevin cuts one piece.
Sam: “No! I don’t want it cut up!” She cries. “No!” Tears.
Kevin: “OK, here you go.”
Sam: “No! I don’t want that piece! I want that piece!” (Pointing at one of the slices left on the tray.) She continues to cry and say “No! No! I don’t want that piece!” More tears.
Kevin takes the piece off her plate (with the one tiny piece cut off) and puts it back on the tray. He eats the one tiny bit he cut off. He takes the slice that Sam pointed to and puts it on her plate. Pause.
Sam: “No! I don’t want that piece (the one that she pointed to on the tray)!” At this point Emily and I start giggling. “I want that piece!” (She points at the one she originally had, with the bit cut off.)
Kevin shakes his said and says “I can’t win.”
Emily and I laugh a little more. I say, “Are we being filmed? Are we in a sitcom?”
Kevin growls, gives Sam the piece of pizza she originally had, and settles back in his own seat.
Sam: “Actually, I want it cut up.”
Emily and I lose it. I am now in tears myself, hands covering my face. Sam is yelling “Don’t laugh at me!” Which just makes us laugh more. [In fact it's 1 and a half hours later and I'm still giggling.]
Classic. I wish we really were being filmed. It was priceless.
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Too funny!
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