Fainjin is getting more and more verbose, and increasingly emphatic especially in his negatives. A simple “no” is unlikely.
For example, let’s say I need to put cream on his face and he doesn’t want me to. Here’s what I’m likely to hear:
“Nooo Mama! Cream all gone! All finished cream! No cream a-day.” And then sometimes, in a frantic attempt at diversion and evasion “No, Mama, Babess cream.”
If I persist, I’ll often hear “I run away!” with a Doppler effect (hard to get when typing it!) as he takes off towards the laundry which is as far away as he can get but which is, conveniently for me, a dead-end.
Then he’ll let me put on the cream. But next I’ll want him to put on a jacket. “Nooo Mama! Jacket all gone!” et cetera.
Like most events around here, sometimes it’s infuriating, and sometimes it’s just hard to keep a straight face.
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