Not the right question

A couple write to Dear Amy asking whether the stay-at-home who "has more time" or the goes-to-work who "knew about it but didn't do anything" is more to blame for them taking months to clean out a kitchen drawer that their toddler could get into. She begins her answer thusly:

Sometimes when I'm out and about, people ask me if I make up letters that appear in my column. And I always respond by saying, "Who can make this up?"

My question is: why can't Amy read the letters? Why doesn't she have an editor? How can she not have noticed that they did "fix it", and are now - after fixing it - asking her to settle the argument? I mean, how much more clear can you be:

Our question is, who is more responsible for the fact that the drawer has (until yesterday) never been cleaned out and the dangerous items taken out of our son's reach?

Notice that (until yesterday)?

Sure, you can argue about who should have cleaned it out - and that's in fact what they're arguing about - and you can tell them that they should have cleaned it out earlier. But this

In the time it took you and your husband to bat this issue back and forth and then for you to sit down to e-mail me your query, your son could have ingested several batteries and learned to light his own cigarettes. Both parents are equally responsible for removing dangers from Junior's reach. Generally, whatever adult perceives the hazard first should act first. Ask yourself: If your son were at a day-care center, would you want his caregivers to argue over who is responsible for providing a child-safe environment? Or would you want someone to just take care of it?

isn't answering the question.

Ah... vacations. Sometimes you just have a little too much time to think about things!