I don't get it. Is it a puppy as in vicious child-eating snake? And espresso as in vicious child-eating snake? Because otherwise it doesn't sound very threatening to me.
Got it. The caffeine part I understood, but I couldn't understand why it came with a puppy. There's probably parents out there like me who don't get it, either. They would retrieve their kid and think, hey. Free puppy. Cool.
No, it's not the worst thing in the world. At all. But, you see, neither is an unattended child from a home who'd take in a free puppy and give it a good home.
I think the espresso is free because it's being given. The reason for saying "free" in relation to the puppy is to emphasize that as far as the giver is concerned, the kid can keep the puppy - the kid is not just being allowed to hold the puppy or anything like that. The default for giving an espresso is "I don't want it back", whereas the default for giving a puppy might be unclear.
As a parent, can I just say that I hate it when other parents don't attend their kids in coffee shops, or lets their kids yell in the minivan when we're getting a lift with them? 'Cause I do. Eleanor goes over to make friends and then starts acting up with the other kids, like Lord of the Flies or something. If all the parents don't agree that the behavior is obnoxious, the kids will go into lowest bottom denominator behavior.
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