The Neglected Petition Pre-Dates the Current Bedtime Period

Attorney McDershowitz, as I sometimes call Ian, has a very sensible strategy at bed-time. If he can recall any request for food that was placed any time before the final heave to get everybody up the stairs and into bed, he will invoke the prerogative of that unresolved entitlement - usually with a good deal of indignation in the tone, sounding a bit like an untuned violin.

One time, he estbalished a precedent that went back even before the statutory pre-bedtime period that had officially commenced only after we arrived home from some road-trip:

"I'm hungry! I was kind-of whining on the way home that I'm hungry!

(November 9, 2010)