February 1, 2011 shop online at www.broadcasteronline.com Page 11 HELP WANTED LAURA ON LIFE Is his dresser a jar? When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar, of course. It seems self-explanatory, this grade school joke. It was in all the joke books in the elementary school library. You could find it wherever you found dumb elephant jokes and the one about the chicken crossing the road. Apparently, some kids didn’t really get it, though. Probably because the word “ajar” isn’t generally found in the working vocabulary of the average 9year old. So, when I asked my son, “When is a dresser not a dresser?” he answered, “When it’s a jar?” “Uh…no…what?” “A jar, get it?” “I understand what you think you meant, but I don’t think you do.” …And I wasn’t about to explain the mechanics of a grade school joke because I needed to move on to the dresser in question. “Your dresser is not a dresser because you are not using it to store your clothes.” “Um… that’s not really very funny, mom.” “It… wasn’t…a… joke. Your dresser has no clothes in it!” “That’s because they are on the laundry table.” “Well, then go get them and put them away.” Laura Snyder “But my drawers don’t have any room.” “That’s because you have loaded them with toys.” “You told me to clean my room.” “Yes, but toys go in the toy box.” “But there’s no room in my toy box!” I walked over to the toy box and flipped open the lid. It contained an assortment of books, crumpled artwork, remnants of chip bags and granola bar wrappers, dirty laundry and a few toys; the ones that didn’t fit in his dresser, I assumed. I didn’t know where to start, so I started with the obvious: “The books go on the bookshelf.” “But…” “They will fit if you don’t stack your books. You need to stand them up like little soldiers.” I pulled a questionable pair of underwear out of the box. “Where do these go?” I asked. “In the hamper, but I’m using it as my desk.” su|do|ku Solution © 2008 KrazyDad.com Patricia Curry: 605-661-2860 Andy Curry: 605-261-1202 Archie Dunham: 605-366-4625 Also see us at Siouxlandhomes.com www.dunhamcompany.com Virtual Tours Elk Point, SD 209 W. Walnut Street - $98,500 Open House Sun Feb. 6th • 2-3pm 1704 Arnold Palmer Lane - $224,900 4 bedrooms 3 bath ranch. Open concept, living room w/firepl, slider to patio. Kitchen appliances stay. Master w/roomy walk in closet, large mst bath w/double sinks. Main fl laundry. 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Single attached garage w/GDOpener and remote. 2-car garage on alley. “Why don’t you use your desk as your desk?” “Because I turned it upside down so I could make a base for my guys.” “If you used the underneath of your bed for a base, your guys would have a roof.” As a parent, your arguments must employ the logic of a 9-year old. “I can’t. That’s where I put my clean clothes.” “Let me get this straight. You can’t put your clean clothes in your dresser because your toys are in it. You can’t put your toys in the toy box because your dirty clothes are in it. You can’t put your dirty clothes in the hamper, because you’re using it as a desk. You can’t use your desk because it’s your guys’ base. And TV 1315 you can’t use the bed as your base because it’s where you put your clean clothes. Do I have that right?” “Yeah, kinda,” he said in a small voice. 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