If you give your kid a water bottle, they will lose that water bottle and swear that it's nowhere to be found, so you'll buy them another water bottle, at which point, the other water bottle will magically appear.
Iโve given my husband fair warning that as soon as the kids are out of the house, I'm buying buttons to teach the dog to speak. Don't act like you didn't see this coming.
'Aye, the sirens,' says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. 'Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing.' 'What do they sing?' I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, 'Tubthumping.'