The Family Chatroom

(Concept basically stolen from "The Dugout: Baseball's Chatroom")

(Note: Scroll ... WAYYYYYYY down. I'm not sure why Blogger's choking on the code.)

	JakeByTheLake: Wanna play animals?
	Cooper-Man: Animals? Oh! I do! I do!
	JakeByTheLake: Wanna play animals, Mommy?
	Cooper-Man: I do! I do!
	Tammy-Nator: I've got to finish the laundry and start dinner ... sorry.
	JakeByTheLake: Wanna play animals, Daddy?
	Cooper-Man: I do! I do!
	Patter-Familias: Gee. Animals? For the thousandth time today? Gosh, what a treat. How about, I dunno, baseball in the back yard?
	JakeByTheLake: Wanna play animals?
	Cooper-Man: I wanna play! I wanna play! (begins crawling toward Jake)
	JakeByTheLake: Cooper, no crawling! Daddy, you play animals!
	Patter-Familias: As soon as I'm done, um, fixing this broken phone. (Smash! Tinkle, tinkle.) Sorry.
	JakeByTheLake: Mommy, You play animals.
	Cooper-Man: (Struggling.) Almost … There!
	JakeByTheLake: No, Cooper! Mommy?
	Tammy-Nator: Ask your Daddy.
	Cooper-Man: I wanna play!
	JakeByTheLake: No, Cooper!
	Cooper-Man: Victory! (Grabs toy animal.)
	JakeByTheLake: No! (Snatches toy away.)
	(Tumbles to the ground.) Waaaaaaaah!
	JakeByTheLake: Uh-oh.
	Patter-Familias: Jake, that's not fair! He's just a little guy and he looks up to you and you can't go and knock him over like that!
	JakeByTheLake: Sorry Daddy.
	Patter-Familias: I'm not the one you should be saying sorry to.
	JakeByTheLake: Sorry Cooper.
	Cooper-Man: (Sniff.)
	Tammy-Nator: That's right. Just be careful. Now ... have you learned anything from this?
	JakeByTheLake: (Long pause.) Wanna play animals?
	Cooper-Man: Animals? Oh! I do! I do!