Mom took Boyen off to Chime Squad practice and left poor Alice1 home with me. Alice came in to my office to pester me about supper and something else and, as she was leaving the second time, said “Ha ha, I was in your office twice and you couldn’t mess with me! Twice!”. I pretended to not hear her until she (in an effort to force me to acknowledge my epic fail) came within reach, at which point I dropped a lot of messing on her. She then observed “that’s what you get when you tease Dad”.
1 Alice wanted to go along to get a milk shake afterwards. She promised to sit quietly for an hour but Mom (for no reason at all) didn’t believe Alice.