Felix the Con Man

If you've read the previous post you will know that Felix and I alternate telling each other stories at bedtime. Tru loves when I tell him stories; he prefers it to being read to.  He will mention it on mornings in anticipation of the story that night- he just loves it. Which is great, I don't consider myself a very good story-teller but it pleases me that he is so pleased by it. An occasion where I really got to experience his delight was several weeks ago when I surprised him by resurrecting the character Mechanico, a character we came up with months prior. Just as it was looking grim for the protagonist, in sprang Mechanico. Felix, lying in his bed in the dim light, raised both arms triumphantly. But, as I am not a very good story-teller, I do struggle to come up with stories that won't seem like I'm being lazy.
Anyway, the point here is that Felix loves when I tell the stories, though he is not real keen on telling them himself. It is not unusual for him to tell me that it is my turn though he knows that it is not. Felix saw a problem; "I don't want to tell a story, but I have to tell a story in order for dad to tell his story the next night. How can I get around this?", he may have thought.
But then he had the answer! "Dad, how about we not tell stories every night?" He asked me last Tuesday morning, a day that would be his day to tell a story. I was really surprised because of how much he liked my stories. Upon seeing my surprise he elaborates, "How about you tell stories some nights, not every night, just some nights?"
"You will still tell stories, right?"
"Yes, but you will tell stories some nights"
"Are you sure?", I ask.
"Yeah", he says confidently.
Come bedtime he springs his trap, "Dad, I want you to tell a story tonight because it's some night".