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Why I'll miss the diapers

by Roger Sinasohn (Subscribe to Roger Sinasohn's posts)
Jun 11th 2007 4:27PM

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Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Development/Milestones: Babies, Baby Essentials

It was late on a Friday night at the taqueria. I was just about to order my burrito when he came through the door. He grabbed a young girl of about ten, with lush raven hair and bright hazel eyes, and put a large chef's knife to her throat. "Give me all the money or the girl dies!" he bellowed. The girl, eyes wide with fear looked at her mother, then at me. I knew I had to do something.

"You're not going to kill an innocent girl," I said as I stepped towards him. He jabbed the knife at me and that's when I made my move. My hand darted out and grabbed the blade of his knife, yanking it out of his hand. I stepped forward and pushed him backwards. He stumbled and fell back on to the table behind him as the girl ran to her mother. It was then that I noticed that he must have turned the knife when I grabbed; my hand was slit open from my palm to my wrist. After the cops arrived, I collected my burrito -- on the house -- and made my way to the hospital to have it stitched up.

And that's how I got this scar.

Okay, not really. That's just what I tell people at parties. What really happened is that I was pushing the garbage down in the garbage can one night, forgetting that there was a cracked wine glass in there. The glass broke and sliced open my hand.

Ever since then, I've made sure to put the diapers on top so that if there is any broken glass or other dangerous items in the garbage, the diapers provide a nice thick layer of protection. Now that Sara is basically potty trained, however, I don't have any diapers to put on top of the garbage. Taking out the trash has become a lot scarier now. I'm glad that Sara is potty-trained, but in one way, at least, I miss the diapers.

Tags: diapers, lies, potty training, PottyTraining, tall tales, TallTales

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