Being Mark Cohen

I often put my little guy into bed at bedtime and when work hasn’t consumed all my energy I like to have a little left to read with him.  As it’s school holidays my wife took the kids to the library and stocked up on books.  So tonight we had a choice and we decided to read Horton Hatches the Egg, by Dr Seuss.

When we got to the end of the book my little guy saw two blank pages.

“Blank page” he declared.  He flipped the page.

“Another blank page” he said, and flipped again.

“More blank pages” he said as he flipped a few more.

He closed the book and put it down.  He thought for a while and then then said “I think Dr Seuss forgot to finish this book”.

“Maybe…” I replied, choking on a laugh.

“It’s too bad because now he’s dead.” He told me earnestly.

At which point I lost my self-control and he wanted to know why I was laughing about something so serious.

He makes a good point though.  It would be very sad to run out of time before your book is finished.