Reprise

Setting: The family is at the check out line at IKEA. It's a long line, and the kids occupy themselves with the assortment of items stacked on either side of the aisle.

Max and Emma spy a box of brightly colored neck pillows -- the semi-circular kind that you can use for travel.

Max picks one up, and brandishing his new épée, approaches his Dad:

Max: "Prepare to face your doom!"


Note: We can only imagine that Max linked the green, red, and yellow colored pillows to the vegetable pepper battle that ensued this past summer.