Zeke's New Candy Discovery- Dad

Chapter 1.

For a couple of days now we have noticed two things about our car. First, it had a new refreshing and somwhat pleasant smell when you got in it. Second, Zeke's new suit coat was slopped on the floor of the car. Now, Zeke's clothes being slopped is no new thing, but the refreshing smell in the car...now that was new.

Chapter 2.

Tonight Sarah, Zeke, Luke, Lydia and I were all in the girls room having fun with the lights all turned off. Eventually, this turned in to a dirty clothes flinging fight. After we turned the lights on Sarah found two round, blue, discs on the floor of her room. She picked up the two blue disks and asked "Dad, what are these?" In the context of a girls bedroom in our home the two blue disks looked completely unfamiliar. Then I remembered in a flash of recognition that these were two urinal mints from the men's bathroom at the church and said "Well, they're urinal mints". I immediately turned to the curious, inquisitive, and somewhat spontaneous Zeke and had the following conversation:

"Zeke, did you take those out of the urinal at the church on Sunday?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"I don't know?"

"What did you think they were?"

"Candy"

"Did you taste them?"

"No."

"What did you do with them?"

"Just put them in my pocket."

So, the mystery was solved, both the cause of the mysterious lovely smell in the car and the appearance of two urinal mints on the floor of our girls' bedroom. Zeke had taken the urinal minds out of the urinal at the church on Sunday when his curiousity got the best of him. He them put them in the pocket of his new suit coat. The suit coat sat on the floor of the van wafting the smell of its unusual contents all around the car. When I finally had Zeke take the coat into the house tonight, he put the coat in the nearest dirty clothes bucket he could find- in the girls' room. In the furor of the dirty clothes fight, the suit coat was flung across the room and the two blue stowaways in his coat pocket ended up on the floor. Needless to say, both Sarah, Zeke, and I have all washed our hands quite extensively tonight following this unusual discovery.

Isn't it great to be six.