Three Cookies

the story starts at 3:30pm as we get in the car to ride to an orthodontist check up, across town, with a slightly surly kid …

in addition to the orthodontist, the itinerary includes voting

and the kid wants to go to the library

supper hasn’t even been thought about

and there are music lessons which require departure at 6pm

and … I love this kid …

so, after the orthdontist, I dropped the kid off at the library (kid is 14 years old)

and went to vote, which is nearby

at the voting, they always have a bake sale, and there was one baggy, marked ‘Peanut Butter’, which contained three brown lumpy cookies, clearly constructed with oatmeal and chocolate as well as peanut butter. price $1

returned to the library, went in and met a happier kid, with four nice books

checked out the books, went out to the car and gave the kid a cookie

this child had scowled since sitting in the car at 3:30pm, and not spoken a word

kid begins to examine the cookie as it is eaten, discussing possible ingredients (probably has some honey), then agrees to stop at the supermarket to get cold cuts and bread for sandwiches, tells some stories about the day, calls home to alert the other kid of supper plans, and begins reading. I eat a cookie, too.

reads while I go to the supermarket

arrives home, eats a good supper and goes upstairs to read a bit more until music lessons

third cookie goes to other kid

the lessons of the cookies

• Cookies are good
• Sharing cookies makes them even better
• Bake sales are good
• One cookie won’t ruin supper entirely
• Cookies also serve as silent evidence of good deeds (voting)

ironically, I purchased only the $1 bag of cookies, not the cookies offered by the girls in little uniforms. but my opinion of the little uniform girls’ cookies is really the tale of the store brand cookies … and that’s a different story …