The boy was moping.
“What’s wrong?” I asked.
“I just don’t like that Eamon is watching The Fellowship of the Ring on his iPod right now.”
“Oh,” I answered sympathetically as I considered removing the ear buds from his older brother’s ears and sending them both out to play. “What would you like to be doing with him instead?”
The boy looked confused.
“Um, let me rephrase that,” he said. “What I mean is that I don’t like that I’m not watching The Fellowship of the Ring on Eamon’s iPod right now.”