"Mom, can you help me figure out how to be paler?"
"Why do you want to be paler?"
"So I can look like a computer genius who spends all his time inside writing code."
"What if you just work on learning a lot about computers?"
"No, what I want is to be paler."
"Why do I have to pick up Legos while my brothers get to sit down and read?"
"They'll pick up Legos in a few minutes. You have to take the first shift, because they did their downstairs picking-up tasks cheerfully and you gave me trouble."
"Trouble?! I did not give you trouble. I made a perfectly logical argument which you failed to follow."
[inwardly]: BOGGLE
This isn't from the same kid, is it? I get the feeling he's about three years away from reading a lot of philosophy and wearing a lot of black. If he starts quoting Hamlet you may need to send him to boarding school.
Posted by: Sarah | May 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM
You've started him on Nietzsche already, and he can't figure out how to look like he spends all his time inside?
Posted by: Rob | May 27, 2009 at 07:32 AM