In that split second, the kitchen stopped breathing. A five-year-old, dead serious, wondering if the light switch was part of the food chain. His mother’s mind raced from cartoons to safety hazards—until he calmly explained he was just following Dad’s late-night instructions to “turn off the light.
What followed that stunned silence was the kind of laughter that only erupts when fear and relief collide. The mother suddenly saw the scene from her son’s point of view: a world where every overheard phrase is a literal law of physics, where “light” is a thing you can hold, and “in your mouth” is a perfectly reasonable next step. The father, somewhere in the house, had no idea that a tossed-off, half-private remark had just been promoted to full-blow
In that split second, the kitchen stopped breathing. A five-year-old, dead serious, wondering if the light switch was part of the food chain. His mother’s mind raced from cartoons to safety hazards—until he calmly explained he was just following Dad’s late-night instructions to “turn off the light.
What followed that stunned silence was the kind of laughter that only erupts when fear and relief collide. The mother suddenly saw the scene from her son’s point of view: a world where every overheard phrase is a literal law of physics, where “light” is a thing you can hold, and “in your mouth” is a perfectly reasonable next step. The father, somewhere in the house, had no idea that a tossed-off, half-private remark had just been promoted to full-blown family legend.
n family legend.
