We're getting ready to sell our house, which is going to involve a LOT of yardwork. Last night Scott hooked the trailer up to the van and drove up to Lowe's to buy lots of mulch, rock and some landscape timbers. Silly tagged along to "help." When they bought all their stuff Silly was watching Scott load everything into the trailer. He told Scott that he should put the rocks in the front, but Scott put them all in the back. When they started to drive off Scott realized that he couldn't drive that way because the trailer was too heavy in the back and was trying to pull off the hitch, so he stopped to rearrange. When he go back in the car, Silly asked him what he'd done. Scott told him he'd moved some of the bags of racks to the front of the trailer. Silly reminded him that he'd told him to do that in the first place.
Scott was telling me this after the kids were in bed and we sat and wondered what must've been going on in that little 4yo brain. He couldn't lift the bags of mulch or rock, so how did he know which was heavier? How did he know the heavier stuff should be in the front, not the back? (More importantly, why did he think of that when his engineer father didn't?) The only thing I could think of was before they hitched the trailer up to leave, Scott had put Bubba in the trailer. Cakes and Silly of course asked if they could get in too, Scott told them Bubbs didn't weigh enough to tip the trailer, but they did.
Silly does those sorts of things all the time where he tells one of us how to do something and we don't listen, but it turns out he was right. I guess we ought to take his 4yo advice more seriously.
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