Oh, my gosh! Here comes Mama!
Oh, no! What'll we do?
We could hide the lamp!
There's no time!
Well, we can at least hide the soccer ball.
Hurry, here she comes! Hide it quick!
Well, I'm back from my shopping. Did you have your milk and cook...? [She sees that her best lamp is broken] My lamp! My very best lamp! What happened to it?
Well, um...
You see...
It got broken.
I know it got broken! How did it get broken?
Well, it was a bird!
A bird? Yes. A bird!
That's right! A big purple bird with yellow feet!
Yes! And a red head and green wingtips.
And funny little red feathers sticking out of its head.
This bird, did it make any kind of sound?
It squawked.
It whistled.
That's right. It squawked and whistled.
[red-headed purple bird squawking and whistling]
Then it flew in the window, zoomed around the room, and broke the lamp.
Well, that was quite an experience.
Yeah.
Well, hello, group! How's every little... [He sees that Mama's best lamp is fully broken] HOLY CATFISH!! What happened to Mama's best lamp?
It's quite an interesting story. Why don't you tell it to your Papa?
Well, there was this big green-headed yellow bird with purple feet...
No! A red-headed purple bird with yellow feet.
Yeah, yeah. A purple-headed green bird with red feet and yellow wingtips and green feathers growing out of it's...
No, no, no! A yellow-headed green bird with red feet and purple wingtips and...
Just a minute, please! You've got me confused. Now, what was it, a yellow bird with green wingtips and purple feet, or a purple bird with green wingtips and yellow feet, or a white bird with black spots, like that soccer ball behind my easy chair? Well, do you two say for yourselves?
Now, Papa, don't be too hard on them. You see? I'm not worried about the lamp. We can always get a new lamp or we can glue this one back together. What I'm sad about is the thought that maybe, just maybe, my cubs whom I've always trusted, aren't telling me the truth. And trust is not something you can put back together again once it's broken.
[From Mama's saying, buying another lamp is always possible. That is, or gluing the old lamp back together.]
It wasn't a bird, it was a soccer ball!
And it was all my fault.
It was just as much as my fault.
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