And the circle goes around...

The 2-year-old son of one of my co-workers is at work this morning. He was just sitting on his mum’s lap in the office, eating dates. His mum was collecting the stones in her hand as he was finishing each one. After a while, the little boy picked up one of the stones and put his hand over his head as if to throw it on the ground. His mum said, what I assumed was, “Don’t throw it darling, put it in my hand and I’ll put it in the rubbish bin.”

Oh good, I thought. With so many litterbugs in this country, it’s nice to see some parents teaching their children good litter practices.

The little boy then proceeded to put the stone into his mother’s hand.

And the mother promptly threw it on the floor.

I now assume she was actually saying, “Don’t you throw it, darling. Watch me, I’ll teach you a good rubbish-throwing method. See, you do it like this...”