phoneYou know the moment in a day as a parent where you just need two small minutes to yourself. Whether it is to go to the bathroom or take out the garbage you think your kids will allow you to do that without any repercussions. Well, in a perfect world that would be the case. As we all know we don’t live in a perfect world.

Recently I was going to take out the garbage. When I came back inside I saw both of my girls crying. My oldest, Lily seemed to have crocodile tears while my youngest, Jordan’s weeping looked real.

I sat both of them down and asked Jordan what happened first. She really didn’t discuss what made her cry. She was focused on just one thing….the toy. She kept telling me that she wanted to play with the toy. All I heard was “Daddy can I have that toy? I want that toy.”

Jordan kept saying that over and over again. I felt like I was calling into a customer service line to talk to someone about my phone bill. You know the dreaded automated voice system you hear for about 12 minutes before you are able to talk to a real person.

Since I didn’t get anywhere with Jordan I decided to ask Lily. Her version was that she had Jordan’s toy first and wanted to play with that said toy.

I asked her if that was the truth. Acting like I didn’t say anything she then continued her side by telling me a story about how one kid at school did the same thing to her. He took her toy from her and he didn’t give it back.

Jordan interrupted Lily’s tale by asking if she can have the toy since it was her toy. I honestly felt like I needed to wait for the correct option to actually get the truth. Unfortunately in this case I couldn’t keep on pressing zero over and over again until I got someone to talk to.

All I wanted to know was what happened in what seemed like less than a minute of me taking out the trash. All I got was “Dad if you would like to know what kind of happened press 1. If you want me to ramble press 2. If you want me to just say the same thing over and over again press 3.”

Where was the option to get the real version of the story? I am not saying this happens all the time, but it does on occasion. I guess that is what will happen especially when you are dealing with a 5 and 2 year old. I ended the “call” by just putting the toy away so neither of them could play with it.

Once I did that Jordan said that Lily did have the toy first and Lily can play with it first next time. So in around about way it was like I finally reached a live person and I got my answer that I wanted. I wonder what will happen next time this situation presents itself again.