Opinion : If you give a little girl a Grandpa...

It's been a while since I've read the book, "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" but the other day I saw a version of it being acted out before my very eyes. See, if you give a little girl her grandpa, she's going to want his attention. If you give her your attention, she's going to want entertainment. If you give her entertainment, she's going to soon get bored. Now she's going to want a snack. And if you give her a snack, she's going to need a drink of water. If you give her a drink of water, it had better be in her favorite cup. When you give her her favorite cup, she's going to want to spill it all over your chair. It won't be just any chair, it will be your desk chair, that you need to sit in to work. Then you are going to want a towel. If you go to get a towel, she will cry and think you have abandoned her. If you hurry back, she is now going to want to color. If you give her a piece of paper, she's going to want markers. If you give her markers, she's going to want to write on her arm. If she writes on her arm, she's going to want to wash it off with the bubbly foam soap in the bathroom. If you get her arm clean she's going to want to use the marker and when she uses the marker... If grandpa at any point sneaks off to write a story, she's going to want to come too. This is the real reason that sentences are short. He sat. He wrote about one sentence in length, when the littlegirl arrived. With her paper. And her crayons. And her Grandma with her table. And the chair. So you move the little girl into your office. With her paper, and her crayons, her table and her chair. Now if you give a little girl a crayon, she's going to want to color. For 5 seconds, before she wants you to trace her hand. And if you trace her hand, she's going to want to trace yours. Since there are only so many hands that you can trace... She's now going to want to read a book, that's on HER shelf on YOUR bookshelf. Now if you give the little girl a book she's going to want to read it. Not in the comfy chair in the office, but on the comfy couch in the livingroom. With the dog. Not with the dog on the floor of course, but on the couch too. (because she thinks the dog wants to see the pictures.) So you give a grandpa a book. And a little girl. And of course the dog. Grandpa settles in. The little girl settles in. The little girl pets the dog as she listens, The dog sighs and rests her head on the couch and closes her eyes. The grandpa reads, until the little girl decided that book is boring and now we must watch a movie. The grandpa sees an opportunity to put the little girl down for a nap so that he can work. The grandpa and little girl head into grandpa and grandma's room where the bed has now been stripped by older siblings who earlier thought it made an obviously nice trampoline (after all the pollen outside has made THAT trampoline off limits for a while). Grandpa places the little girl down to watch a movie. The movie starts, The eye lids droop. The little girl climbs down off the bed and finds Grandma. "Seep? Gampa seep?" she says. Grandma chuckles and follows the little girl who is now tugging her hand.. The two wake grandpa who must now give a horsey ride. Grandpa then convinces her to watch a movie again. They all crawl on the bed. The Grandpa. The little girl. The dog. And they all sleep. After they sleep I know it will be time for a snack...I'm thinking cookies...and a glass of milk...