Who Told What?

It's funny how kids will unintentionally incriminate themselves in whatever they don't want you to know about, and then can't figure out how you managed to find out. Take the strange case of Sassy Pants versus Ladybug. Now, I don't know exactly what Sassy Pants did. That's not the point of the story. Just make something up. Here's the bit that gets me.

So, Ladybug walks into where the Queen is playing on the computer. She stands there sort of patiently just watching the Queen as she does whatever she does on the internet. Finally, she looks at Ladybug, and Ladybug says, "um..." Whenever she says "um," it's always a sort of uncomfortable higher pitched voice. Almost a whine, but without the accompanying excuse.

About this time, Sassy Pants comes storming into the room and unlike Ladybug, Miss Sassy is quite vocal and doesn't really know the word "um." She starts right off asking if Ladybug told. Well, of course she didn't. All she got out was "um," so now Sassy Pants (who often does her best to not get into trouble) has indicated to the Queen that Ladybug had something to tell. So she dutifully looks at Ladybug and asks her what Sassy Pants did.

Ladybug says "um...", which was rapidly followed by Sassy Pants (who has a most fortunate habit of telling the truth) spilling her guts over everything that happened, including what she did that Ladybug was umming about. Once the tale was told, Sassy Pants breaks down in tears, but it isn't because her secret is out and mommy knows what happened. Oh no.

She's upset because Ladybug told on her.