A young couple was blessed with a healthy baby boy. He was unusually quiet, but all else was fine. After two years the child doesn’t speak, and the parents begin to worry about him. After three years he has not spoken, and by his fourth birthday he still has not uttered a word.
The couple figure he is never going to speak, but he is a lovely child, and on his fourth birthday they throw him a party, and make him a chocolate cake with orange icing.
The parents are in the kitchen when the little boy comes in and says, “Mother, Father, I do not like the orange icing on the chocolate cake.”
My god,” his mother says, “you can speak!”
To which the little boy replies, “Of course.”
How come you have never spoken before? “his father asks.
“Well,” the boy says, “up till now everything has been satisfactory.”