Corwin had today off from school for Christmas vacation, but Mom and I had to go to work. Mom went in early and I spent the morning doing some work at home. I managed to let the time get by me and suddenly it was late and I had to get Charles in to daycare. I hassled Corwin to get ready, but it was in vain. He got stuck looking for his shoes.
Corwin’s search technique is worth a post by itself, but basically he wanders around in the apparent hope that the object being searched for will jump out at him as he goes by.
In any event, Corwin’s search failed and time was running out, so I just sent him out to the car in his socks, since he was only going along in order to not be left at home alone and thus percipitating the downfall of western civilization.
When we returned sans Charles, I told Corwin as he came in the door “no TV, no computer, no anything until you find your shoes”. Literally ten seconds later, the shoes were located.