Two Scotts & The Cookie Jar

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No one was  home when  ten-year old Arnold Scott climbed onto a kitchen chair
and reached for the cookie jar on the shelf above the kitchen sink.

The cookie jar fell.

Luckily for Arnold, it  did  not land in the stainless  steel  sink
where  it would have shattered into countless unrecognizable pieces.

It landed on the thick floor  mat  in  front of the sink
and broke into exactly three pieces. 

There had been no cookies in the jar but there was Crazy Glue in the drawer.

Arnold  carried the broken jar into his room and glued the pieces back together
but not before his eight-year-old sister, Rebecca, came home.

Upon seeing what her brother was doing,  she gasped.
He turned to her and shouted, "Don't you dare tell Mommy!"

She  didn't.  For  that matter,  Rebecca  helped him align the broken pieces perfectly.

Mother was never to know the difference.

The next day, there were chocolate graham crackers in the cookie jar.

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Footnotes
Originally written in 1997, TWO SCOTTS & THE COOKIE JAR
is the copyrighted property of the Lewis Carroll School of Logic.

The image is from here.
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