Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater...with no phone line!

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater had a Wife and couldn't keep her. Put her in a pumpkin shell and there he kept her very well.

Nick learned this popular nursery rhyme at school this week. They learn one every week, but for some reason this one stuck with him and he keeps saying it over and over . (This may be due to the disturbing image the poem invokes).... At dinner tonight we discussed what it means. We decided it means that Peter had a wife who kept running away so he put her in a pumpkin shell and kept her in there like a jail. The thought of this was (of course) deplorable to the boys. I assume they were comparing the poor gourd entrapped woman to their mother and they couldn't figure out why her husband would do that...SO they decided they would think of ways to get the dejected woman out. After much back and forth and many suggestions, Nick excitedly exclaimed that she should call the police on the phone and have them arrest her husband...Absolutely appalled Alex responded by saying, "There is no way they could run a cable line under a pumpkin big enough to hold a grown lady!" And OF COURSE Nick agreed...