Little Ted's Saturday - Part 2

Off to Corpus Christi we went to a chorus of:
Child#1: "can we go to Chuck E Cheese?"
Mrs Ted: "No"
Child#2: "Toys R Us then, can we go to Toys R Us?"
Mrs Ted: "No"
Children: "WHAAAAAA!"
Mrs Ted: "Stop whining or we wont be going anywhere"

Silence for a nanosecond followed by:
Child#1: "can we go to Chuck E Cheese?"
etc, etc - you get the idea.

Eventually we arrived at Cavenders and went inside to seek out a replacement for Little Ted's red cowboy boots. Almost immediately he saw the John Deere display and shot off in that direction returning moments later with the boot of his choice. Not quite what his parents had in mind for him but if he is willing to wear them we are happy to go with his choice. He wears a size 11 right now, same as his 22 months older sister!, so we bought a size 13. They don't look excessively big on him, he is comfortable in them, and they will last him more than a couple of months so everyone was happy.

5pm now so it's back in the truck to head home and Eddy starts to chant:
"I want something"
"I want something" - over and over and over in her most irritating whiny voice.
Little Ted meantime is sitting quietly admiring his new boots.
The inside of a pickup truck is not the place you want to spend 40 minutes with a steadily increasing volume of discontented whining so I pulled into a parking lot, stopped the truck, got out and walked around to Eddy's door. Normally when Daddy does that it causes the Ted children to pause and consider their actions carefully. By the time I get to opening the door they have calmed down and are willing to reason. Not today, not Eddy, outside the truck I explained to her that she had two choices:
#1 carry on whining and being obnoxious and get a spanking (you can do that here!) or
#2 calm down, get back in the truck and you can have a jelly bean.
Sadly she was so far gone that all this did was change the mantra to:
"I don't want a jelly bean"
"I don't want a jelly bean"
So, back in the truck I head for the exit.
"By the time I get to the exit I want silence" announced Ted authoritatively (don't laugh)
Actually it worked; back on the road home there was barely an occasional whimper and eventually everyone was happy again ....

... until, that is, Mrs Ted said:
"what shall we have for dinner:

Children: "McDonalds"

TED & Mrs Ted: "NOoooooooooooooooo!"

Children: "Whaaaaaaaaaa!"

Ted: "BBQ, we'll have BBQ"

and so it was that the Ted family settled down for the evening in peace and harmony with their take out from Mac's Pit Barbecue and Catering on Market Street, Rockport.