A Tale of Two Tables
Rita Loud glanced around her kitchen and was shocked at the amount of food her children threw around at dinnertime. 'What a lot of wasted food," she thought as all her children were engaged in cleaning the entire kitchen they messed up.
Later that night, while settling down for the night in their room Rita asked her husband, "I think we should reconsider having the smaller children eat at a separate table because for a family of thirteen with a tight food budget, too much of the food is being wasted by them because they are throwing a lot of it around. The adult table is large enough for thirteen people."
"That probably makes sense," her husband responded, "But will the kids go for it. You know we want them to be independent."
"Let us have a discussion with the kid's tomorrow night about the situation," Rita said.
'Okay then," Mr. Loud said, then turned off his nightlight.
The next night after dinner….
"All right kids we're calling this family meeting to discuss something very important," Lynn Sr. announced at his children while they sat on the living room couch.
"What is it dad, I have to start on my Math homework," Lincoln said.
"This is more about you younger kids and the amount of food you waste at mealtimes by throwing it at each other. Your father and I cannot have the four of you wasting any more food we spend our hard earned money buying so starting now we're getting rid of the two table system. This means the kiddie table is going," Rita announced.
"Why" Lola, Lana, Lisa, Lucy," responded with shocked looks on their faces.
Then Lincoln asked his parents, "Can't we vote on the matter?"
Rita sighed, "Okay. Lana, Lola, Lisa, Lucy and Lincoln do you want to keep the kids table?"
In a flash they all raised their hands eagerly.
"All right then. The kiddie table stays but all of you are going to eat properly from now on. If I see any peas or mashed potatoes thrown all over the place we will make you sit at the adult table. Am I making myself clear," the father said sternly.
"Yes dad," they all uttered.
You can go now and do your homework," Rita told them.
While the meeting was taking place Lynn was thinking about something that has been on her mind for a few days. She had discussed it with Luan and they thought it was worth a try to ask their parents if they would consider it.
Before going upstairs to do her homework she pulled Luan aside and whispered to her, "Now is the time to ask them," Luan nodded.
"Hey mom and dad," Luan began
"Yes dear," their mother asked
"Since we were talking about dinner, we want to ask you please don't make dad cook any more liver," Luan said.
"Yes mom we hate liver," Lynn added.
Lori, Leni, and Luna heard the conversation and returned to the living room.
"Yes mom we don't like liver either," Lori said
"And it's very hard to talk with chewed up liver under your tongue," Lynn thought.
"Yes and also it's not fair only the younger ones get dessert," Leni said.
"Okay, okay as of now you can all have dessert after dinner," their mom said.
What the parents didn't know is that Lynn and Luna always managed to hide some of the liver into bags they hid under their seats at the table while nobody else was noticing, then while everyone slept they would sneak downstairs to throw it away in the garbage.