The First Grader: There's nothing for breakfast! I'm hungry!
Me: Have some cereal.
The First Grader: There is nothing!
Me: There's like eight boxes of cereal in the cupboard, surely one of those will work.
The Adolescent Boy: No, Mom. There's like eight cereal boxes in the cupboard, not eight boxes of cereal.
Me: What?
Apparently, while this may look like the place we keep cereal
It's not. It's where we store the cereal boxes once they are completely empty.
Upon further investigation, I discovered that the place where I thought we kept the Pop-Tarts and granola bars is really where we keep the Pop-Tart and granola bar boxes and exactly one actual granola bar and no actual Pop-Tarts.
What? The? Fuck?
Slacker kids.
28 comments:
We need new kids.
I'm guessing it's the kid's job to take out the trash, so if the empty boxes stay in the pantry the trash fills up slower? No, that's just my house? Okay then.
Sounds so like my house. Some days I really just want to smack some kids.
I'd love to blame stuff like that on kids, but unfortunately it's my husband. I'm screwed when I have kids too!
Look at it this way --- at least they put the boxes back. My kids leave them out on the counter.
At least it looks organized!
same dilemma different house-
Next step- teaching them to tell you that they have consumed the last of something that you yourself never eat.
Because like how would I know we were out...... klcrab
It was the frig dweller...he comes at night and eats all the good food, leaving only boxes. I am always confused as to where the food went and how the empty boxes stay.
The trick is to trap him(always a male-at least in GU). They are tricky creatures.
It's a plot to drive us insane, not putting the full carton of milk back in the fridge but always putting the empty cereal boxes back. And then having the nerve to expect me to ...cook... something for breakfast. You have got to be kidding.
How many empty gallons of milk do you have in your fridge to go with that cereal?
I'm thinking that the people who empty the boxes and don't remove them don't get to complain that there's nothing to eat.
Bwahahahahahaha!
*wipes eyes*
Bwahahahahahaha!
You should ask Jamie about OUR cereal problems? She was scarred for life and I am not even kidding.
Igot cereal. He can eat at mt house:0)
Looks like the Easy Bake Kitchen or whatever it is called, with all the fake food boxes. At least it looks good.
MAS
Is it wrong that I'm glad I'm not the only one?
it's the same over here -- and i also hate when they rip the tops of the boxes off so they're all jagged and get caught on the top of the drawer.
Australian kids and American kids have much in common it seems.
Do you also have a milk carton, not a carton of milk in your fridge?
-Stu
Your kids have been in my pantry too.
I am sooo glad it's not just my pantry.
Your voice made this fantastic. thank you for the grin.
You should see my freezer in the garage... it's full of empty ice cream sandwich boxes and popsicle wrappers- glad I'm not the only one-
Do your kids totally tear apart bags of chips and cereal when they open them and leave the bread open so that it gets stale and never screw the top back on the pop all the way so it goes flat? Mine too. Filthy savages.
Yeah, seriously--why don't they go shopping more?
It's like the orange juice at my house.
I like the leprechaun grinning wildly next to the (empty) cereal boxes.
I too am glad to know I am not alone - that being said, once they've told me something is empty they think they need to remind me every 17 minutes until it has been replenished.
If push came to shove, I would rather exactly one actual pop-tart and exactly no actual granola bars.
OMG! Hilarious. I came from Blognuts because I just HAD to see what you were about. You have a new stalker
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