Vignette the First: Ant Season (Probably Act 1 of many)
Me: Why is that piece of radio antenna on the floor?
Young Prince: Oh! I'll throw it away. There was a piece of cereal on the floor covered with ants, so I didn’t want to pick it up with my hands. I used that instead.”
Me: Oh. Good thinking.
YP: And then I threw the cereal down the heating vent.
Me: What!?! Why!?!
YP: To kill the ants. If I threw it in the trash can, the ants would just keep living and get all over everything.
Me: Throwing ants in the heating vent doesn’t kill them. It just lets them travel to other parts of the house.
YP: But shouldn't the heat burn them to death? And what do they eat when the cereal is gone?
Clearly, he is forgetting all the other stuff he's thrown down the heating vent over the years.
Vignette the Second: Race-Gender Politics
YP (playing a video game): “ARGH! You know, it’s better to be a girl than black.”
Me (moderately alarmed at what might come next): “Wait, what?”
YP: “Well, it is in Star Wars. I mean, Lando gets choked by Chewbacca, but Leia doesn't.”
Me: “Oh. Well, yes, I suppose I see your point.”
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