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She just sees the world in such a different way, that I’m constantly amazed by what she says and the thoughts that come out of that not-so-little noggin of hers.
I had just bought a refill of my allergy maintenance medicine and I was opening the bottle in the car. Buddy asks, “Why do they have so many different seals and plastic and tops and cotton on medicine bottles?” And so we try to explain to them what happened with the Tylenol scare in 1982 (I had to look that up) and how the solution was to make sure if someone got into a product to change it, you would know.
Both kids then had a few questions about him*: where did it happen? how many people died? will it happen again? etc… I told them I was pretty sure he was never caught (he wasn’t) and they then asked me where I thought he was now. I told them it was quite a while ago, and that he might even be dead by now.
Sweetie then piped up from the backseat, “Or…. maybe he retired from being evil.”
Oh heavens, I love that little girl and her left-handed angle of the world!
After we were sure the car was going to stay in the lane and not run off the road from us laughing, we heard Buddy tell her in his oh-so-11-and-wise voice, “No. Once you go evil you can’t go back.”
Which was a whole other conversation. Jeez Louise, kids ask the hard questions or bring up the touchy subjects as easy as they do asking “what’s for lunch?” White House Press Correspondents have nothing on two kids sitting in the backseat of a car.
* I use the male pronoun for someone that was never identified or caught not to be sexist or whatever – I’m just lazy and don’t want to say he/she, etc. everytime.
