Friday, November 7, 2014

Maceo attempts an unequal exchange of cake

One day when both Cash's daycare and Yu Ying were closed, Pat & Maurice took Mace and Cassius for the whole day.  A friend of Pat's wife had baked Pat & Maurice a delicious, but small, Basque cake-  just two large pieces which Pat & Maurice cut into four small ones, two for the boys and two for them. Maceo gobbled one and then, since Cash had no interest, gobbled the other, all but a small bite. Pat ate hers. Maurice had not finished lunch and so had not turned to his piece of cake. 

Maceo picked it up and tendered his remaining bite of the second small piece to Maurice saying “Here Maurice, you can have this piece and I can have the other (big) one.” 

No dice, said Maurice. 

"But Maurice," said Mace, “friends are supposed to share.” He was smiling when he said this and it was funny. They laughed and Maceo ate his small piece without complaint. 

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