What's that noise?

Over the past couple of weeks we have come to truly understand that the answer accompanying this question is usually not an answer we really want to know. I'll wait, though, to give you our own, personal examples. First, an outside (i.e. movie) example!

The Movie: Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York

The set-up: Harry and Marv (the blundering crooks) have chased Kevin (the scheming pre-teen) into a house undergoing major renovations. Kevin slams a door at the bottom of a staircase and runs up the stairs. Marv and Harry are both running after him and Marv yanks on the doorknob. This triggers a booby-trap sending a large 5ft. tool chest down the stairs.

Marv: "What's that sound?" as he puts his ear to the door.

Harry: "I don't know..." as he also puts his ear to the door.

CRASH!!!

Marv (with broken nose): "That was the sound of a tool chest, coming down the stairs."

See?! Not a good outcome!!

Now to our own examples.

This was the answer to the question a couple of weeks ago after running the garbage disposal:

Apparently Ethan's fork was down there, and yes, I did this one.

And then Friday night, on our way to meet my parents for dinner. As soon as we're on the main road I start to hear something. It sounds like there's something caught underneath the car so Sean pulls into the right hand lane and I think he's going to pull completely over. Nope, he keeps going because he doesn't see that we're dragging anything and isn't hear the noise at the particular second. Just as I'm about to tell him to still pull over, I see in the side mirror something fly off the roof of the Explorer and land in the street. I knew what it was immediately. "YOU PUT HIS PLATE ON THE ROOF?!?!?!" That's right, Ethan's personalized lunch-tray plate that was filled with his yummy dinner and covered with plastic wrap had been flung to the street. Sean pulled over and I hopped out to go get it. I picked up the loose saran wrap, expecting to see the plastic plate scratched up but still intact. After gathering up most of the pieces, this is what I was able to reassemble:

I know that we will ask ourselves this question again... and probably not like the answer, but with kids it is bound to happen.

So in response to the question, "What's that noise?" hopefully we can try to avoid such answers as:

"Ethan coloring on the walls."

"A baseball through the dining room window."

"Ethan's bike that was left out behind the car."

etc, etc, etc.