At dinner time we often play a game wherein the player is called upon to do random challenges. It's a little circular electronic device with lights around the edges and cards go in it. After you hit the button in the center the lights go off randomly until it stops in one spot, whereupon the player has to do the thing on the card that is adjacent to where the light stopped. It's kind of fun and keeps the kids from bickering (too much).
So last night my daughter, who is seven, was called upon to "tell a story about the littlest ladybug." So off the top of her head she recites this story about a ladybug who is picked on by her friends for being little, and whose father says it's ok to be different. At the end she tells us the little ladybug goes to sleep and has a growth spurt and wakes up normal sized. At which point I slam my hand on the table and yell "Deus ex machina!" and everyone at the table looks at me like I've lost my mind.
So last night my daughter, who is seven, was called upon to "tell a story about the littlest ladybug." So off the top of her head she recites this story about a ladybug who is picked on by her friends for being little, and whose father says it's ok to be different. At the end she tells us the little ladybug goes to sleep and has a growth spurt and wakes up normal sized. At which point I slam my hand on the table and yell "Deus ex machina!" and everyone at the table looks at me like I've lost my mind.
Tsk, tsk, dad, you've got your genre's confused. 