The other day Delphinium and I were lucky enough to be in the car with Grandma and The Nieces. It was a great good time as everybody was singing to keep Charlotte (and ourselves) amused. One song she particularly likes is The Bakery Shop. It's a subtraction song where different people come into the bakery shop to buy a great big bun with sugar one top. You sing each verse with someone's name in it, so that they buy a bun and go away, and then there are only four more buns, and then three, and so on. The last person comes to the bakery shop with their penny to pay, but they look and look because there are no more buns.
I'd been singing that Grandma was last and had to go away without a bun, but both nieces DID NOT think that was okay. Elder Niece said very forcefully "Grandmas get buns!" so we had to think up another plan to finish our song. Younger Niece had the perfect solution. Since the last person was out of luck on buns it had to be someone who didn't deserve one anyway. Thus she sang the final verse "Gaddafi looked and he looked, but there were no more buns, so he went away. Pretty good for someone who's in forth grade.
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