Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
My three-year-old granddaughter wanted a sucker. I said \u201cNo, you can\u2019t eat a sucker in the car, you\u2019ll make a mess.\u201d She said \u201cI won\u2019t eat it, I just want to hold it.\u201d Okay, fine, you can hold it.<\/p>\n
Next thing I know, it\u2019s unwrapped. \u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to eat that.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not eating it, I just want to smell it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pretty soon, her tongue is blue. \u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to eat that.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not eating it, I only had one lick.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next thing I know, her face and hands are sticky, her coat is sticky, the car-seat is sticky and the sucker is stuck to the carpet on the floor. \u201cI told you not to eat that, now look what you\u2019ve done, you\u2019ve made a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sure, it was a totally predictable outcome and any sensible person should have seen it coming. I never should have given in to her demand in the first place, I should have taken the sucker and let her wail and cry about it. That\u2019s not the part that puzzles me.<\/p>\n
What I want to know is: how did she manage to teach her technique to the Iranians so they could outwit John Kerry and Barak Obama, without me knowing about it?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Or did Kerry learn it from Jimmy Carter, who learned it from some other grandchild 35 years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My three-year-old granddaughter wanted a sucker. I said \u201cNo, you can\u2019t eat a sucker in the car, you\u2019ll make a mess.\u201d She said \u201cI won\u2019t eat it, I just want to hold it.\u201d Okay, fine, you can hold it. Next thing I know, it\u2019s unwrapped. \u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40442,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40434\/revisions\/40442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}