What do you see in this picture?
You probably see a normal, well organized shelf full of toys. In fact, it’s from Thing 1’s Kindergarten class. But that’s not how Thing 3, a troublemaking two year old, sees it.
I stopped by the Kindergarten classroom, which was empty, to get Thing 1’s jacket. Thing 3 was with me. I got the jacket while he explored the rest of the room. There is a lot of interesting stuff in a Kindergarten room, especially to a two year old.
We were only there a few seconds. That’s all it takes. Thing 3 saw the same normal shelf and thought it would be fun to dump everything on the floor. So that’s what he did.
Do you see the largest bucket with about a thousand teeny tiny Legos? He dumped that one on the floor first.
In the movie Unforgiven there is a line “When confronted by superior numbers, an experienced gunfighter will always fire on the best shot first.” They have a sixth sense about them.
Thing 3 went for the bucket which would do the biggest amount of damage first. I now know exactly how this incident happened.
Good on ya, Thing 3! Keeping grown ups on their toes since 2007. :)