While at a friend's place the other day, I was lucky enough to witness the future of our country in the making.
Her four-year-old has decided she wants to be the Prime Minister one day. Mellie has taken to lining up dolls and bears to give them speeches on saving the environment, warning the dog to save water by not shaking it off over everything when they give him a bath and turning off every light switch and power point that she deems 'not being used'...
... much to the annoyance of her mother when she is writing an article and the PC suddenly flicks off.
However, she exibited an uncanny understanding of the economy when her mum gave her a handful of marshmellows to share with the dog.
Mellie carefully cut one of the marshmellows into 4 pieces and gave them to the dog. When I asked her why she did it, she replied that she was economising by making it look like there was more than what there was... and by giving the dog the same number of marshmellows that she had, that it wouldn't notice.
Our country is so... so... screwed,
