The child told her mom what her dad said and her mother responded telling her young child, "Tell your daddy that he can't type a letter right now because there's a red ribbon in the typewriter."

The child went back to tell her father the bad news.

A few days later the mom told her "Tell daddy that he can type that letter now."

The child told her father and came back to her mother and gave the father's response, "Daddy said never mind with the typewriter, he already wrote the letter by hand."