What do mental breakdowns and fish have in common? A lot if you're an 8 year girl. My best friend Dusty and Reagan have a cutie pie of a daughter named Cecily who was given a goldfish as a gift a while back, and as goldfish will do, went belly up much like the mortgage market has. (but that's a different story). Suffice to say little miss Cecily didn't take the news too well, her mother described it as a hysterical fit of epic proportions, paramount to a sibling dying, so one could say she might have overreacted.
Round two of the fish fiasco starts with my friends buying their daughter a Beta fish a couple of days ago, along the lines of if you fall off the horse, get right back on again kind of thinking. For a whole day the fish does great and then next day promptly dies. Decisions, decisions, do my friends break the news to my emotional fragile niece (well practically my niece) or do they do what most honest, hardworking, burning the candle at both ends kind of parents do and lie like there is no tomorrow?
If you ever read this Cecily, your fish was very "sick" and your Dad took him to the vets to be treated, because no amount of money is too much to spend on a $2.00 fish. By no means did your Dad go and buy an identical fish and pawn him off as your original fish, cause that would be wrong. But seriously, if you had to choose between telling a little white lie to stave off an 8 year olds emotional breakdown or give it to em straight, what would you do? "That one there, yes, in the corner, that fish looks exactly like our old one, that one will do just fine."
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I would lie to my kid like there's no tomorrow!
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