Priorities

On Friday, the toilet flooded our downstairs bathroom and soaked the hallway rug. Mom spent most of the afternoon cleaning it all up. By the time it was almost taken care of, Dad came home with a new bookcase that he wanted to put together for the upstairs. I tried to tell them that they should quit worrying about the house and pay attention to me instead. But they didn't listen. They just kept building that silly bookcase. Finally, Mom took me into my room and was getting me ready for bed, but then we heard a huge crashing noise! The bookcase had fallen over and broken part of our banister! Now Mom and Dad just have more work to do on the house! They should have listened to me in the first place.