Worth Going On The Run For

(We are on a camping trip with our friends and their three-year-old. I brought my nine- month-old son’s music book, which the three-year-old finds very interesting and wants to play with all the time. His parents told him to ask me if he could play with it, but he refuses to ask while still trying to play with it.)

Friend’s Son: “Okay. If you put the book here, I will run away.”

Me: “Are you sure? You know you can’t play with it until you ask.”

Friend’s Son: “Yes. Put it down and I will run away.”

Me: “Okay.” *puts down the book*

Friend’s Son: *makes a move to grab the book* “Now I run away!”

(I couldn’t fault his logic… He never did say he was going to run away WITHOUT the book!)