The Inspector, Part 2

Yesterday, I returned home to find a sink full of dishes. Being “Husband of the Year” for two years running now, I rolled up my sleeves and got started. However, after washing the silverware and a few cups, I noted a scene that gave me pause.

Reilly’s large pink cereal bowl was partially full of leftover Peanut Butter Bumpers. However, there was also a second bowl, a smaller purple one that contained a few soggy Cinnamon Life squares. Being the world-class inspector that I am, I was able to deduce several things. Allow me to recreate Shawn and Reilly’s morning.

Shawn asks Reilly if she would like Peanut Butter Bumpers for breakfast. Reilly says yes. Shawn fills a bowl of Peanut Butter Bumpers for Reilly and lets her begin her breakfast. Then, Shawn returns to the kitchen to make her own bowl of cereal. Since Shawn does not like Peanut Butter Bumpers, she instead selects for herself Cinnamon Life. She takes the bowl into the dining room, sits down, but upon her first bite, hears a voice of protest from across the table. Reilly, being the conformist that she is, sees Shawn’s cereal and demands that she too be given a bowl of Cinnamon Life. Shawn, having had this argument before, silently thinks I should have seen that coming and goes to get Reilly a second, smaller bowl of the aforementioned cereal. However, Reilly, having eaten most of her Peanut Butter Bumpers already, is too full to finish her new—albeit smaller—bowl of cereal. Hence the scene from the kitchen sink.

Elementary, my dear Internets.