Missing Prize

Canada Day is celebrated at the park on March 1^st.  They had a potluck dinner where we had to bring our own plates and silverware.  We played a game of passing around a little flashlight while music played.  The person who held the flashlight when the music stopped got to take it home.

 

Barb won the flashlight.  When we were leaving the community center, Barb gave me the flashlight because she didn’t have any pockets in her pants.

 

We got home. I did the dishes and threw out the bags we brought the dirty plates and silverware home in. 

 

Later Barb asked me where the flashlight was.  I said I didn’t know.  I thought I might have put it in one of the bags we brought home but I didn’t get up to look for it.

 

Barb dug out the bags in the garbage and searched for the flashlight.  She got her hands all dirty from the garbage but it wasn’t there.

 

Then I looked in my pocket. I found the flashlight.  It was in my pocket all the time.