Outside a local elementary school, a very tall father and a very little boy, maybe four years old, were engaged in an exchange. The little boy was objecting passionately to moving onward because someone or something which he expected to be there, wasn’t. He was upset and confounded.
The father stayed calm in his interlocutory effort. He offered a tentative explanation — which didn’t work. The little boy got angrily tearful. The father took out his cell phone and said something about taking a picture, “Mommy” was invoked. Little boy vocally tossed this aside.
Father said they should go. Little boy objected. Loudly.
Then the father asked, “Well, what do you want to do?”
“I DON’T KNOW!” was the response.