#79 🥄 Things are seldom entirely what they SEEM, like wooden rockets 🚀

Journal 📖

We just want the cash

It’s going to happen, eventually. Your kid will put their tooth under the pillow, and then you’ll get distracted and head off to bed and forget all about it. And they’ll wake up in the morning, either confused or distraught that not only is there no remuneration from the tooth fairy, but that the tooth has been shunned and left behind.

When this happened to me it got even more complicated. I immediately feigned confusion to my daughter Ida at the tooth fairy’s fickleness, and convinced her that we could just give it another shot in the coming evening. But Ida decided that – perhaps to spite the fairy – she wanted both the money and to keep the tooth.

So I wrote this note on Ida’s behalf, had Ida approve it, and left it under the pillow with the tooth.

And it worked! The tooth remained, the money appeared.

Ida was only moderately suspicious. The first tendrils of doubt emerged.