A mother couldn’t believe it when she received an alarming call from her daughter’s preschool informing her that her 3-year-old daughter had brought a fish to her class.
Lauren Scanlan’s clever daughter, Peyton, adores her pet fish so much that she decided to take it with her to preschool by putting it inside her sippy cup.
The teachers did not notice the fish until snack time when Peyton started drinking water from her cup while her pet was swimming inside.
Needless to say, the teachers immediately called Lauren to inform her about what happened.
Lauren saw the funny side of the situation and told the story to her cousin, Connor Hughes, who took a screenshot of their conversation and posted it on Twitter.
Connor’s post quickly went viral and gained over 300,000 reactions since it was shared.
The first message from the mother read: “Got a call from Peyton’s school today that apparently she smuggled her fish from home and brought it to school in her sippy cup.”
When Connor asked if the fish had survived, the mother said: “Yup… (it’s) alive. She apparently scooped it out of the tank, put it in her sippy cup and went to school.”
Lauren said in the text messages: “At snack time, she drank it and the teacher noticed something in it. She forgot it was in there.”
The mother also told Today Parents that she was left ‘mortified’ by the incident.
“The director (of Peyton’s school) called, wanting to know if I knew that Peyton had brought her fish to school in her sippy cup,” she said.
“I said no, I had no idea that Peyton had brought her fish in a sippy cup. I was mortified. I didn’t know what to say.”
Lauren said that earlier that morning, her daughter acted very suspiciously. She noticed that Peyton had spilled some fish food on the ground and thought that was the reason why she was acting weird.
“I told her it’s okay, that I would clean up, and then I didn’t think anything of it,” she continued.
“Peyton put her water in her backpack and we went to school.”
When she asked Peyton why she brought her fish to preschool, the little girl said it was because she ‘loves Mermaid so much.’
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