Fiona Guthrie: big girls don't cry

Boysack, Scotland -- A local potato dealer successfully thwarted a clichéd metaphor when he prevented his young child from going into hysterics over a glass of spilled milk.

Quick-thinking father saves family from hackneyed metaphor about spilled dairy beverage.

Aodhán Guthrie, 29, said his 2-year-old daughter Fiona was having a snack and playing by herself in the kitchen when the accident happened.

"She was reaching over to grab a biscuit and hit the glass with her elbow," said the young father of three. "Thank God I walked right in just as it happened."

Guthrie said he was able to avert his daughter's crying over the spilled beverage by putting on a plastic tiara he happened to be carrying and imitating the Queen of England.

"Even at such a young age, Fiona is already overly emotional. She gets worked up over the slightest of things," Guthrie explained. "The spilled milk would have sent her over the edge."

879 men, women and children shed a tear or two over spilled milk in Scotland last year. This number is up 7% from the year before.

At press time, the Guthrie family is said to be at home enjoying a game of Monopoly and roasted lima beans.