David was a good boy. He was nice to his mommy. He was nice to his daddy. He was even nice to his little sister, Baby Jane. He made his bed every day. He brushed his teeth in the morning and at night. He always kept his room clean. But there was one thing David DID NOT do well.David was a very, very silly eater.
This made David’s mommy very mad when she tried to give David his dinner. He picked picked picked at his pile of peas until they were all apart from each other, and then he would eat them one by one. He slurped one slippery string of spaghetti at a time. He chomped his crackers at their corners, going in circles until the whole thing was gone.
Then, one day, David’s mommy got very mad. “Here!” she yelled, dropping some bananas in front of him. “Pick these apart as much as you want. But YOU have to clean up all the banana mush.” Then she walked away, stomping her feet.
David looked at the bananas. He looked at them some more. And he kept looking at them.
When David’s mommy came back, he was still looking at the bananas. “What are you doing?” cried David’s mommy. “Eat one of the bananas.”
David frowned at his mommy. “But if I separate them,” he said, “they’ll miss each other.”
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