They Need Something

The struggle is very real, y'all.

Mila wants to go to a Pirates game. She has been asking all summer, but I have been ignoring her request because ... if you are in Pittsburgh, you don't need me to explain. It just seems so wrong to give team ownership any money when they are doing such a spectacular job of reminding us that they can't be trusted with our money.

But she wants to go.

She doesn't care that they are AWFUL. Mila goes to baseball games for the ice cream, playground, and general people watching. She also just plain likes to do anything near downtown Pittsburgh. Whether or not there is an actual game being played is irrelevant to Mila, which is good since the Pirates haven't shown up to play since before the All Star break.

For the record, I will give in before the season ends. One game and exactly one game is in her future ... Eventually ... Maybe on a day when the giveaway is sufficient to make me feel like it was worth going. I haven't told Mila that I plan to let her have her way, but I do.

Thus, we ended up in the dead-end conversation about going to a game AGAIN. We've had that conversation about 13510394 times this summer. She asks to go, I tell her they aren't very good but we can go do something else fun instead, she insists we should go. It's all very circular, as are many things in the mind of a 5-year old.

Yesterday, though. Yesterday Mila broke the loop. When I explained they weren't very good so we could do something else, Mila replied, "Mom, I have to go to a game so I can tell them to play good enough for me to go to more games! THEY NEED ME THERE!"

It's really hard to argue with that logic.

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[bluzdude]

You are so dead when she becomes a teenager!