Reality is not like the adverts....

[fleetfootmike]

There used to be an advert for some make of car on TV.

Husband (young, slim, fit in many senses of the word) is washing car, evidently fairly early on a weekend morning. Wife is watching, clearly aroused by the spectacle. Husband finishes car wash. Wife and husband kiss in kitchen. Husband glances upstairs, with implicit 'what about our son' question. Wife says 'don't worry, he won't up for hours yet'... Kid, who can't be more than 6, chooses about now (obviously enough) to wake up and yell "Mum! Dad!

It's broad daylight. On a weekend. It can't, reasonably, be earlier than 9.30 am. His parents have been up long enough that they've got as far as washing the car. And they *really* think he'll still be asleep, and STAY asleep for 'hours'?

Mike, woken at 6.40 am by his son this morning. Again. :)

Comments

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Is the Grandma Mambo like Mambo No. 5 (Channel 4 Test match music) but 93?

[gingicat]

See, when I was four, I knew that if I woke up earlier than my parents, I should read, play quietly, or turn on the TV *really* softly, and maybe have a piece of bread and butter if I was hungry.

[cadhla.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on the kid. I was that sort of kid; the 'is Seanan still in the house or has she gone out?' sort of child. My sister Melissa, on the other hand, was the spawn of the devil until she was seven or so.

[gingicat]

Ah, I indoctrinated my little sister into the concept of "if you stay quiet, we can do whatever we want till Mom and Dad get up, and I'll make you breakfast" as soon as she was old enough to talk in full sentences. :)

[plaid-dragon.livejournal.com]

Funny, first time I saw that ad, I read it very differently. Man and woman in kitchen. Man glances upstairs, and the picture cuts to the main room, where it is obvious someone is still asleep in the double bed. Implication, she's carrying on with someone else while her husband is upstairs asleep. Thus making it a nice twist when it is actually their son, and there is no affair happening.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the definite twist in the background story, with the implication that the car, while apparently a hot sports sort of car, is also a family car.

Admittedly, not a family which has to carry sufficient musical instruments to support a small orchestra...

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

Ok. Never spotted that.
I guess if you come in partway through the ad the first time, you miss the clues, or lack of. And once you've seen it once..

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

You have children who KNOW about weekends?

[rickbooth.livejournal.com]

No, they just have different week lengths that far north. It's a physics thing.

[tarkrai.livejournal.com]

Mike, woken at 6.40 am by his son this morning. Again. :)

ooooohhhhhh.... wait until he's a teenager.

THEN you'll never be able to get him out of bed.... (Yes, a sign of impending adulthood is when sleep becomes a desireable thing.)

[theo-knight.livejournal.com]

So get the lead out of your legs
And take a step or three;
You can mambo just like me,
The Grandma Mambo!

Hope will be 4 in May. You have my sympathies...