Play Ball

The following has been going on for the last half an hour or so;

BW, in the entry calls up to the living room "Daddy, you want to come out and play catch?"

Charles, lying on the couch says "Sure" and gets up, puts on his shoes, finds his mitt and ball and heads outside only to find that BW, his sister and the next door neighbor girl have all mysteriously disappeared. Charles looks around, sees no one and returns inside where he takes off his shoes and proceeds to the couch to lie down and resume his nap.

Just as the man is about to slip into the land of nod, the front door bangs and from the entry BW calls up "Daddy, don't you want to play ball with me!?" and then heads back outside.

A bit more slowly, Charles again rises from the couch, puts on his shoes and heads outside. And like before, BW and friends are no where in sight.

Shaking his head and mumbling under his breath, the man returns to the couch and wraps a blanket around him, this time leaving his shoes on.

As in a comedy of errors, BW once again returns to the entry and sadly calls up "Daddy, why don't you want to play ball with me?"

This time Charles called out as he rose from the couch "Stay right there, don't move, I'm on my way."

And then they did play ball. And I could finally laugh about it.