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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (56575)	9/2/2002 8:44:39 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

X, When I was going through a divorce more than ten years ago, my daughter was maybe four years old. I had a fish tank in her room. One day when she was visiting I (we) noticed that the fish had died. As a parent I was worried about how I was going to explain this. I told her the fish had died and we needed to flush it down the toilet (my solution to every fish problem). I thought she would be sad but instead she (four year old) asked if she could pull the handle on the toilette. From a parental point of view I was greatly relieved. Not only does she seem untraumatized by the death of the fish, she seems to really want to pull the lever on the toilet. Maybe I should have taken the opportunity to explain death to her but hell she’s only four so I figure I’ll have other opportunities. She flushes the toilette and it swirls around and down. I’m in the clear, I think when she asks where the fish will go? Not a person to discount a technicality, I say the fish is going to the ocean. Of course she has no idea what the ocean is but the answer seems to suffice. Two months later I picked her up from day care and told her we were going to the ocean for the week, south of Bethany Beach Delaware. No lie, she immediately asked me if we would see the fish when we got there. .