Well, everyone knows the last thing I would ever want to do is sound rude
but people who are unusually chipper in times of crisis always strike me as a little odd and the happier a person is in the worst possible times, the scarier it gets.
"Rise and shine sleepy head. It's such a beautiful morning! Oh, I'm sorry. I had to cut your achilles tendons last night so it might be a little hard to walk. We can't have you scampering off before breakfast!"
We're going to have such fun today! We can play games and do arts and crafts. I have some records we can play too.
And maybe later I'll wheel you down and show you the hole in the barn floor my dead stepfather used to push me in.