Scene: 6:15 a.m. My bedroom. I am asleep. My three-year-old child enters from the bathroom.
CHILD (stage whisper): Mommy!
ME: ...What?
CHILD: Know why I didn't flush?
ME: ...Why?
CHILD: So it wouldn't wake you up.
He goes back to bed.
Fin.
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