The Government

A lesson in watching what you say in front of a highly-impressionable 4-year-old.

They are widening one of the major roads near our neighborhood, this has unfortunately resulted in a few power lines being hit on occasion and causing our power to go out. One day I was at work, and returned to my message light being on on my phone. What was waiting for me was a message from D, trying to be funny, talking about how our taxpayer dollars were being wasted because our power had gone out from the road construction once again. He declared he was calling the governor and that this was all the government's fault.

When I returned home that night ... K was going on and on about "the government." Fortunately, his tirades died down after that evening. Well, Friday night, a small storm came through, and I'm guessing thanks to someone not properly securing exposed power lines or tree branches hurling in the air ... we again lost our power. Of course, this was at night time. The first thing out of my son's mouth. "Oh, the government!!" I about died laughing, but realize that if he has these outbursts in front of the wrong people, it could start a long debate. The thing is, the way he says it is even funnier than what he is saying.

Alas, about 45 minutes later, the power came on. But during the downtime, K got to experience what it was like back in the "old days" as we read a book by candle light. I just hope for his sake that he doesn't continue to correlate power outages with the government, otherwise, the government is in for it!