Tired dad: [Brushing small child's teeth for her] “You know, brushing teeth is important. You have to brush your teeth because, eh, you got fish in there. And they lay eggs and the eggs hatch.”
Child: “Bargle garble…”
Tired dad: “Then you got all these baby fish swimming around in your mouth, and it tickles, and no one can understand you when you talk. So you gotta brush your teeth good.”
Mother: [Stops taking off makeup to devote full attention to this exchange] “??”
Sleep deprivation and the birth of myth
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