Careful and Itchy fingers

Why is it that when you walk downstairs at night and you are feeling a little sleepy but curious about what the adults are talking about or doing downstairs that the CAREFUL GOES AWAY and you slip?

There is was walking downstairs and suddenly there was no careful under my feet and I fell. When I was told that I should be careful I had to explain to the adult in question that it was not that easy as the "careful went away".

Buttons are made for pressing and gadgets are made for tinkering with, there are no two ways about that one. So, again this begs the question why adults have to lable you as having itchy hands or itchy fingers when in fact all you are doing is responding to the buttons and gadgets desire to be pushed or fidgeted with.

The best place for this is definitely sitting in the front seat of my Mum's car - the aircon is split so this is amazing fun, you can turn it on high, on the face, on the body, on the feet at the side, the front or the back. The radio and CD player has several functions and if you are a budding DJ you can really get some funky sounds going. Then there is the glove compartment - this houses things that Mum wants to keep in the car but hide from the outside world. The most fun is gained from telling her to drive fast then flipping the catch and watching the door bounce open - it also gains the most shock factor in terms of making Mum jump. Then of course there is the all time favourite: electric windows - this is a whole topic on its own.

So when Mum told me to stop having itchy fingers I just told her that it was unfortunate, however the itchy would not go from my fingers ;)