Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Orange Boy, because he was wearing an orange t-shirt.
One day, Orange Mum took Orange Boy to Ikea. While she was having a meal at the cafeteria, she allowed Orange Boy to go into the playpen to play with the other kids.
![[Ikea playground]](http://www.sheylara.com/images08/0506ikea.jpg)
Meanwhile, a boy named Green boy (because he was wearing a green t-shirt) arrived with his mother.
Green Mum gave Green Boy five pieces of Daim chocolate candy and said, “Be a good boy and you can eat this later, okay? I put on this table first.”
![[Daim candy]](http://www.sheylara.com/images08/0506daim.jpg)
She put the chocolates on the table surrounding the playpen as Green Boy nodded obediently. She walked off.
Now, Orange Boy was in the playpen pretending to be a space pilot. His eyes lit up when he saw the chocolates on the table. He rushed to the table and grabbed the whole handful of them.
Orange Mum, who was only a little away, saw what happened and scurried to Orange Boy.
“Boy, you cannot take that. It doesn’t belong to you! Put it down.”
Orange Boy put the chocolates back sullenly. But as Orange Mum returned to her seat, he swooped down on them again.
Once again, Orange Mum abandoned her food to dispense parental guidance.
“Boy, I told you already, you cannot take other people’s things! Nah, I give you your own sweet.”
With that, she magically plucked a single Daim chocolate candy from her pocket and gave it to Orange Boy, making him put the others back.
Orange Boy waited for Orange Mum to go back to her seat. Then, again, he grabbed the chocolates that didn’t belong to him.
Orange Mum slapped her forehead and trudged wearily back to Orange Boy.
“Stop that! Nah, I give you another one. Don’t take other people’s things!!”
As Orange Mum walked back to her seat, Orange Boy looked at the two sweets in his hands. He looked at his mother. He looked at the five on the table. He’s excited about his newfound ability to make sweets grow. He grabbed the five pieces again.
Orange Mum sighed loudly, rolled her eyes and continued eating.
At this time, Green Boy, to whom the five stolen pieces of Daim belonged, was oblivious to this daylight thievery, so engrossed was he in being a pirate captain.
Unchallenged finally, Orange Boy happily hugged his ill-gotten gains as he flew around the playpen, pretending to be a jet fighter.
Now, this jet fighter was flying on empty. It ran out of fuel after a few minutes and had to stop. Orange Boy decided to go back to being a space pilot because that was more fun (and less tiring).
But he needed both hands to pilot a spacecraft and the hands in question were at this moment busy holding Daim chocolates. So, Orange Boy thought of a plan. He went to the table and set his sweets down, all seven pieces of them.
With his hands now free, he ran back to his spaceship and took the wheel.
Now, Green Mum must have been watching all this in silence from somewhere. The moment the chocolates were back on the table, she marched up to them, grabbed them all, including the two that belonged to Orange Boy, and called for Green Boy.
“Boy, it’s time to go. Take your sweets, let’s go.”
Ever so obedient, Green Boy came running over, accepted his sweets and followed after his mother.
Orange Boy’s eyes widened in shock. His chocolates were walking away! He looked towards his mother for guidance but Orange Mum pretended not to notice and looked away.
So the thief became the victim and the victim became the thief, and only one boy lived happily ever after.
The End.
:) Your story made me smile. Now time to sleep. :D
Awesome story and Orange Mum did the right thing in the end by ignoring Orange Boy’s plight. Although you are right – she shouldn’t have rewarded his bad behaviour in the first place by giving him sweets when he was stealing sweets! :P
I dont pity the Orange boy.. I hope he really learns a lesson out of it…
what a lesson…
some hidden high level lesson in the story i presume.
but too hard to absorb for now after some misadventure recently for me.
thief became the victim and the victim became the thief
sound like “Wu Jian Dao” aka internal affairs
Ahhh… the joys of children.
The world has its way of punishing bad mistakes…hehe… :)
WALL OF TEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EWWWWWWWWW
I read 1/2 way and gave up.
Green Boy’s mum is one nice mum. If I were Green Mummy, I would have yelled at Orange Mummy. And then…cat fight! But one wonders, what kind of mummy is Orange Mummy. She can’t even control Orange Boy at this age. What will happen when he is in his teenage years or worse….adulthood!
Think its these orange boys and orange mummies that put me off having kids. What if I turn into an orange mummy? Nightmare….nightmare! And Monster, you’ll then blog about my monsterous child!
Nice to see Karma is still working in full force.
That particular place in Ikea is a little scary for parents. The kids go in and indulge in their Lord of the Flies stuff and the parents (i.e. ME) sit outside wondering whether to get involved, and should you scold other people’s kids etc…
Stupid kids! Can’t even let a mother eat in peace.
*bish bish bish bish bish*
Well, kids nowadays are more difficult to control… But I guess that was a good lesson for Orange Kid to learn and it’s good that Orange mom let him learn instead of duking it out with Green mom like how some unreasonable parents who spoils their kid would do (regardless of who was in the wrong).
Not only not letting their parents eat in peace, they wont let me eat in peace too. Kept bugging me while I was eating.
Goonfather,
Promise I”ll train my kid to let you eat in peace and also serve you more food too!
modchip: Hehe! Thanks! :)
mooiness: The only thing I can say is that parenting really isn’t easy. I think sometimes you try to do the right thing, but the right thing just ain’t right, either. lol.
Jaschocolate: Yeah, me too.
lupkoon: Hello :) Don’t think I’ve seen you before. Thanks for visiting!
Ashtar83: Hahaha. Yeah, like wu jian dao. What misadventures have you been getting yourself into?
Jesta: I hope you were being sarcastic.
flyflyworm: Hello :) Don’t think I’ve seen you before, either. lol. Thanks for visiting too!
eeeww: Hello x3. Eh… Thanks for reading 1/2 way and giving up. lol.
Monster: Haha… but Orange Mum can’t help it if her child refuses to listen to her right? Ok, I guess parents have to take responsibility for the way their kids behave, but I believe some children are just born incorrigible. :P
kochier: Yeah, I believe karma happens. Just that sometimes it doesn’t happen until way too late. lol.
Jesta: Hmm. Interesting. I’ve only sat there once, so only managed to witness a couple of small fights. One of the parents just took his kid away, end of story. No big fuss. :P
JayWalk: In these cases, dunno whether to blame the mother or the kid.
Steffi: Fortunately, I’ve never encountered parents who bicker on behalf of their kids. OMG. I hope I never get to see it.
The Goonfather: Haha. You should have slapped him.
(Background story which I didn’t include in my blogpost: There was this kid who tried to boss the Goonfather around by repeated staring at him and demanding that he finish his food quickly. lol. stupid kid.)
QY, I am not going to read your blog in the office anymore. The NEI SHANG I suffer from holding in the HEAVING giggles… tsk tsk. Very chialat, I tell you.
And GF ask for it lor. He got da kind of Bully me, bully me! face. Bwahahahaha!!!!!!!!
This is the way things are supposed to happen!