8-year-old: Do grownups ever get bored?
Me: Sure. Why do you ask.
8-year-old: It seems like you never get bored.
Me: Really? How so?
8-year-old: Because you spend so much time doing boring things like typing on your computer and looking at papers and cleaning the house.
5-year-old: Sometimes you can be done even if you’re not finished.
Me: I know you’re talking about lunch, but that’s also a pretty healthy outlook when it comes to life and work.
8-year-old: Kids at school play this game called Infection where everyone is It. I don’t like it, because eventually I’m being chased by a wall of people, and some people lie and say they’re not It, and then tag you. And it seems like there’s no way to in.
Me: Very on-the-nose.
5-year-old: Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
Me: Paper covers rock.
5: It’s not a rock. It’s a meteorite. Meteorite burns paper.
Me: Well, this isn’t just paper. It’s a scientific paper, and science can stop meteorites.
8-year-old: But what stops science?
Spouse: Fox News.
She was supposed to be napping, but instead my 5-year-old decided to invent a “Coronavirus Vacuum” to suck the virus out of the air. It comes complete with “jelly donuts disguised as red blood cells to attract the virus and keep it trapped inside.”
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