A 3-year-old girl from North Carolina has gone viral for her unique choice of bedtime story.
Megan Mordaunt, an au pair based in Charlotte, shared a hilarious video on TikTok last month in which she reads a rather unconventional bedtime story to a little girl she watches.
Instead of the usual children’s books the child requested, Mordaunt says the three-year-old asked her to read aloud the instruction manual for the family’s iced coffee maker.
“At first I couldn’t stop laughing when she asked me, but I was able to calm down when she kept saying ‘Meg Meg, read the story,'” Mordaunt tells PEOPLE.
“Every day when we get ready for bed, I let her take two books off the shelf in her room for me to read to her. However, on this particular day, she clearly somehow remembered the iced coffee instruction manual she must have noticed lying on the kitchen counter while standing on the kitchen ladder.”
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“Then she ran to the kitchen, grabbed it and handed it to me saying ‘Meg, Meg read this,'” the au pair recalls.
Mordaunt says this is the first time a child has asked for a bedtime story like this, although he says the girl has an “amazing imagination”.
“She is a very intelligent child, although she is still too young to determine whether she is into mechanics or not,” he says. “What we do know is that she’s super creative and sometimes does and says the funniest things.”
Mordaunt tells PEOPLE she’s been “extremely surprised” by the response to her video — the clip has already been viewed more than 3 million times.
“I thought it was funny, so I posted it, although right after I posted it I thought, ‘I wonder if I’m the only one who thinks this is funny,'” she says. “It wasn’t until I posted it on my Instagram Story and got so many responses that I decided to post it on TikTok.”
“I was thrilled that the video reached 3 million views.”
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