A Restaurant Funny

In our household, the kids aren’t allowed to leave the dinner table with dishes left behind. Their job is to put their own dishes and cups away in the dishwasher. When I first started this, I would tell them that we don’t have magic fairies who live in our household to clean up after us. Usually I’d remind them, “Tinkerbell doesn’t live here.”

Yesterday I took my son out to lunch on his day off (I had a teacher work day), and as we were leaving the table, he eyed the dishes and cups we had left for the waitress. Then he tilted his head and remarked thoughtfully. “Mom, I think Tinkerbell DOES live here.”