dotty-literati
“Daddy, I’m sorry about your little jumble.”
- Cooper McElroy
neurodivergent-angus
Travis: Huh -
Justin: [overtalk] Two nights ago - or, two days ago, rather - I was, um, in the shower getting rid of all my, um, filth. And, uh, my two-year-old, as she is wont to do, just sort of barges in. And - Because she wanted me to do something. I don’t know what it was, probably to do something to one of her dolls like wrap it up in toilet paper or throw it into the toilet. So she barges -
Griffin: [overtalk] Can she not do that last - From what I understand toddlers excel at throwing things into toilets.
Justin: Yeah, but if I do it she can’t get in trouble. So she barges in -
Griffin: [overtalk] Oh, I see.
Travis: [overtalk] And you and I both know Cooper likes making people do things. Like, she has her whims -
Griffin: [overtalk] Yeah.
Justin: [overtalk] Yeah.
Travis: - and she likes them to be, uh, acknowledged.
Justin: So she barges in while I’m mid-shower, I’m just wrapping up, and -
Travis: [overtalk] Where are you at in this point?
Justin: I - in the shower?
Travis: Yeah, like, like what stage of the process?
Justin: [overtalk] I’m rin - I’m rinsed, I’m ready to go -
Travis: [overtalk] Oh, okay.
Justin: - the shower’s over, basically. And I, uh - She barges in and I am, of course, caught unawares. And I, um - you know, I rush to turn the water off so I can reach out and grab a towel, but in the way that little children are wont to do, she has already taken notice of my privates and started scowling at them and pointing in a very anger way, as if to say, “What are you doin’ with those?”
Travis: [overtalk, laughing] “How dare you?”
Justin: Yeah, “Why do you have those?” And so I cover myself up and I go to, uh, see - with the towel, and before I can say anything she points at my now covered crotch and says, “Daddy, I’m sorry about your little jumble.”
[Griffin and Travis both laugh]
Travis: Oh, great!
Griffin: How would she know the worst imaginable thing to say?
[Justin starts wheezing and laughing]
Travis: Every word of that is the sickest burn I’ve ever heard.
Griffin: “I’m sorry” is not what you wanna hear, about -
Travis: [overtalk] Nope.
Griffin: - your “little” -
Travis: [overtalk] Oh, no.
Griffin: - “jumble”?
[Travis laughs]
Griffin: “Jumble” su - “Jumble” suggests there’s things where they ought not be.
Justin: Which, from her perspective -
Griffin: [overtalk] Right.
Travis: [overtalk] Yeah.
Justin: - alright. Fair. But she said, “Sorry about your little jumble”.
[Griffin and Travis both laugh]
Griffin: Oh, man.
Justin: [overtalk] And then, she went on - she went on to inquire more and I said, “No. It’s six-fifteen in the morning. I’m not doing this with you. We’re not doing this. I’ll put the doll in the toilet, you win. But we’re not talking about my little jumble.”
[Travis cackles]
