A Light Bulb Moment-SIPPITY Iced Chocolate Marshmallow Hot Chocolate

A Light Bulb Moment-SIPPITY Iced Chocolate Marshmallow Hot Chocolate

“Your cell phone is beeping,” I said to my wife as we were driving home from work indicating that she had received a text message. “Who is it?” I anxiously asked as I placed the container of Sippity iced chocolate marshmallow hot chocolate I was drinking into the cup holder.

“It’s Anna,” she replied, referring to our thirty-year-old daughter. “She got a new boyfriend,” she stated as she was reading the message. “His name is Avery.”

“That’s a rather odd name,” I curiously stated.

“Like Ebony & Avery,” my wife replied.

After taking sip from my container of Iced marshmallow hot chocolate I said, “It’s Ebony and Ivory, not Avery. You know, the lyrics that Paul McCartney wrote,” referring to the ebony and ivory colored keys on a piano keyboard that are placed side by side.

Somewhat embarrassed, she replied, “Well, anyway, his name is Avery.”

“Did she send a picture?”

“No, but we’ll find out more tomorrow.”

“Why’s that?”

“Because I invited her to spend the afternoon with us at the pool.”

The following afternoon my wife and I were relaxing with our feet in the pool drinking iced chocolate marshmallow hot chocolate when Anna arrived. After we greeted each other and Anna sat next to me with her feet in the pool, I said, “So, Mom told me you got a new Boyfriend-Avery.”

“His name’s not Avery, Dad” Anna said laughing. “It’s Michael.”

“Michael!” my wife proclaimed as she placed her plastic cup of iced chocolate marshmallow hot chocolate by her side and reached for her cell phone. “Your text message said his name was Avery,” she stated looking towards Anna. “Here I’ll show you.”

Taking the cell phone from my wife, I read the text message which began as, “Hi Mom. I met Avery nice guy.” Immediately I began to laugh.

“What’s so funny?’ My wife asked.

“Here’s a light bulb moment, honey,” I stated while continuing to laugh. “His name’s not Avery.”

“Sure it is,” she insisted.

“No. Here, read the message,” I stated handing the cell phone back to my wife and picking up my container of Iced chocolate marshmallow hot chocolate. “There’s a typo in it. There should be a space between the words ‘a’ and ‘very’. It should have read, ‘I met a very nice guy’”

We all then had a good hard “belly” laugh.

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