The Adventure of the Whole Sink and the Pooh Toothbrush

[philip_tallon]

This is a verbatim transcription of a story Marnie told Karen yesterday:

The Sink and the Missing ToothbrushOne day a child woke up. She found her toothbrush inside of the whole sink. And the toothbrush was missing. It was lost from her. She was so disappointed. Her mom called out "Brush your teeth! Brush your teeth!" But her toothbrush was

Comments

Haha!!

[lefteyeislazy]

Newberry Award winner, for sure. Did the poor girl have a traumatizing drop-your-toothbrush-down-grandma's-stopperless-sink incident?

Re: Haha!!

[philip_tallon]

Who knows where some of these things come from.

I don't think Marnie has any sink-a-phobia, or any bad sink experiences.

But she has been taught by example to drive the plot along with the introduction of conflict.

So maybe the sink functions as a metaphor for the rough and tumble nature of the universe, or something.

Re: Haha!!

[lefteyeislazy]

one thing's for sure, the girl has a good vocabulary

[1_peach_2_peach]

Great story!

[travelingrobin]

This actually was based on a true experience of loss from Grandma's stopperless sink. She re-told Mimi about it Friday night as we put the girls down at Grandma's house. The incident happened months ago I think!