Sometimes I think I’m in a Sondheim musical.
Carter and Archie have decided to turn off the TV and wrestle. Archie comes running to me.
Archie: Help me take off my shirt. I have to take off my shirt because we are wrestling.
Me: You have to take off your shirt to wrestle?
Carter: Here’s the trick. Do you have two dollars?
Archie: Yes. I have to take off my shirt to wrestle with Carter. Carter said so.
Carter: I’ll pay you two dollars, or you pay me two dollars if I can say the number you’re thinking of.
Me: Wha?
Archie: Take off my shirt!! Carter said so!!
Carter: Two dollars, if I can’t say the number you’re thinking of
Archie: Pants on or off?
Carter: Think of a number.
Archie: ON OR OFF PANTS ON OR OFF
Me: I don’t have two dollars.
Carter: it’s okay, you just have to believe that I can’t say the number you’re thinking of.
Archie: PANTS OFF
Carter: see, but I can still say “The number you’re thinking of!” Get it? Get it?
Archie: PANTS ON OR OFF CARTER?
Carter: On. Let’s go wrestle.
They run off to the bedroom and I am left alone to sing some sort of sad ballad.
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That was one of our riddles from this morning, adapted from a story about guessing someone’s weight. Something got lost in translation. The wrestling bit is new.
It’s a lovely song you are singing.