It wasn't that he was eating something so late at night that set me off, and it certainly wasn't that it was low-fat yogurt.
The problem was he was eating MY yogurt, and it was late at night.
He sussed the gravity of the situation rather quickly and said:
"I was just having my dessert."
For some reason that explanation satisfied me, even though it was, again, MY yogurt he was having as dessert. After all, we did have dinner earlier that evening and there was no dessert provided at the time. Perhaps my guilt at that oversight prevailed, but for whatever reason I let it go.
Only later, after he'd gone off, gastronomically fulfilled, to bed, did the significance of his argument strike me. Dessert? Four hours after dinner concluded? Is that possible?
Well, what is dessert anyway? Wikipedia describes it as 'a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food...' Doesn't say a thing about how much time should elapse between the main course and the dessert. And even if close proximity in time is implied who's to say you can't save up your dessert and have it later?
So, this yogurt-snatching teenager had flummoxed me with his quick thinking...
Until..., that is, I realized it wasn't just late at night that he was having his 'dessert', it was, in point of fact, 12:05 am - an entirely different day!
One might plausibly argue dessert could come after a meal at any time during the same day, but no one can argue it can come the next day.
After midnight it is just a snack...
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Consider it a really early breakfast AND remember, teenagers are ALWAYS hungry.
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