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I’ve Been Caught!
Written by the residents at Alz Place (an Adult Day Care Center) in Gainesville, FL. On Friday, January 13, 2017
Tom Sawyer just got home and was mighty hungry, but his mother Anna Sue told him he would have to wait for dinner. He couldn’t.
He poured himself a Coca-Cola thinking that would be enough, but it wasn’t. Then he got to thinking about the Cookie Jar in the pantry. It wasn’t his favorite – Vanilla Wafers – but he was so hungry even plain old sugar cookies would be great! He took the jar without his mama’s permission and snuck out into the bathroom. He couldn’t wait, and didn’t even close the bathroom door all the way. It was a squeaky door anyway, and he knew he didn’t want any more attention.
He sat right down on the bathroom floor and started munching on those delicious sugar cookies. His teeth crunched, but otherwise it was pretty quiet. The first cookie on the top of the jar had some strawberry frosting on it.
Pretty soon he heard his dog Snoopy Fido nosing open the door. He could hear her loud sniffing the air. Snoopy Fido wanted a cookie, too, but Tom wasn’t ready to share them. Snoopy barked.
All of a sudden, Tom heard his mother yell out, “Tom! Where are the cookies?”
Tom got up quickly and flushed the toilet to make it look like he was busy with something other than eating cookies.
“Tom! Did you eat the cookies?” Ana Sue yelled again.
“No!” was Tom Sawyer’s response. The dog barked that he didn’t eat any cookies either.
Ana Sue stuck her head into the bathroom eyeing Tom and the cookie jar. “Thomas Sawyer!” she said out loud with a not very happy tone of voice. Then she disappeared. Tom was so scared he didn’t even munch another bite.
She returned a moment later with a cup of coffee (with some milk in it) and sat down on the floor of the bathroom with Tom and ate some cookies herself. She looked Tom in the eyes, then looked Snoopy in the eyes and said, “No dinner for Tom and Snoopy Fido!” Then she dunked a cookie into her coffee. She laughed first. Then Tom laughed. Snoopy Fido barked.
After she had finished her first cookie and a long slurp of coffee, Ana Sue turned to Tom and said, “Just wait till your Father gets Home!”
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