All Dads Have Gas
Chapter Two - A bad smell is in the air
The boy steps toward another healthy tomato plant behind his father, but before raking a small weed, he sniffs the air again.
Something smells fishy. Bad fishy.
“Dad, do you smell that?” says the boy.
“Do I smell what?” says the father.
“A bad smell,” says the boy.
“I’m not sure,” says the father. “What does it smell like?”
“It smells like a rotten fish. But worse.”
“Really?” says the father. “I don’t smell that.”
“But it’s right here,” says the boy while wrinkling his nose and waving his free hand in the space between himself and his father.
The father sniffs the air.
“I do smell something,” says the father, “but it doesn’t smelly like rotten fish.”
["A wet dog can smell bad sometimes. What else?"]
“What does it smell like?” asks the boy.
“I smell something like the inside of a wet garbage can,” says the father.
Then he asks the boy, “Do you think you smell a wet garbage can? There are three cans behind our house.”
The boy shakes his head. He still thinks he smells a fish. A bad fish.
Then the father says something that surprises the boy.
“Well, maybe what you smell is coming from me.”
Quack!
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Please click here to enjoy an interlude in New Children’s Book Pt 2: “All Dads Have Gas”.
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