Another bad parenting moment

The set-up: We're at Chipotle yesterday and Calvin dares Thomas to eat a lemon wedge. Thinking he won't be able do it, Calvin offers Thomas $5 if he can eat the whole thing. Thomas promptly eats the whole thing and collects his $5.

Kaching.

Calvin then decides to go double-or-nothing with Thomas. This time, it's a lime wedge, again, Calvin thinks Thomas can't do it. Wrong.

Kaching. Thomas now has $10 for eating two pieces of citrus.

Calvin, now out $10, is trying to make some of his money back. At this point, as a responsible parents, we should have intervened. Instead, we joined the frenzy. I offered Calvin $5 if he could eat five chips smothered in Chipotle's hottest salsa.

After the first three, Calvin thought he had it in the bag. By chip four, his mouth was on fire and his eyes were watering. After chip five he guzzled an entire soda and said "that wasn't worth it."



Then Thomas piped up. He wanted to try the same challenge. We let him.



He starts out well.



This picture doesn't do it justice, but Thomas is beginning to look injured (he has a low threshold for pain).



Much to everyone's surprise, he did it. He ate all five smothered chips.



Kaching. That's good money for a few minutes work. Thomas got the last laugh on all of us.

Or so he thought.

10 minutes later while shopping in a nearby store, Thomas says he thought he was going to throw up. So we found a restroom ASAP. Sure enough, the boy hurled three times. A few minutes later, he says "I think it's coming out the other side now!" Back into the bathroom.

So he didn't get the last laugh after all. But we let him keep the money. Today, he went to the pet store and spent some of his hard-earned cash on a black and red newt (or is it a salamander? It looks cool in any case).