Recently one late evening we took the children to McDonald’s, and after Mago ate his dinner he was rewarded with an ice cream cone (the bargain bait – our children are very picky eaters). He burrowed his tongue deep into the half-eaten cone and stayed there, savoring it with a dazed expression.
Me: “Have you had a good day?”
Long pause, no answer. I teased him:
Me: “Disengage sugar. Answer question.”
Another long pause, then:
Mago: “This… sugar… is… tasty.”