Me: ...

Schmoopie: *bursts into room*
*INTENSE STARE*
Me: What?
Schmoopie: THERE'S A THING *INTENSE STARE*
Me:
S: COME SEE THE THING YOU MUST COME SEE THE THING
Me: I need to come see something? *getting up*
S: THE THING HURRY HURRY HURRY
Me: *goes outside*
Mephitidae: OLD MOMMY!!!! OLD MOMMY!!! OLD MOMMY!!
LOOOOOOOOK!!!*jumps frantically at house walls
S: LOOK! *stands against house staring at the roof*
Me: Is the thing on the roof? *looks*
*sees nothing*
S: *tries a different side of the house*
UP ON THE ROOF GO GET IT
Me: Um. I can't see it. And I can't go up there.
S: *checks the shed, just in case*
M: *snorting up drainpipe* MOMMY GO UP THE DRAINPIPE!!!
Me: That's....no?
S: GET THE THING OLD MOMMY
M: GET THE THING!!! GET THE THING!!!
Me: OK, look, I can't. And also no.
Schmoop & Middy: ...
I think I just lost some god points.

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