Conversations

On the way to Daycare...

Me: (Engaging in harmless banter with daughter)

Gigglegirl: Knock it off!

Me: What? Now-w-w-w, that's not a very nice thing to say to your Dad!

Gigglegirl: (pause). Knock it off!!

Me: Arrgh!

Gigglegirl: Hee hee!

...

(Later...)

Gigglegirl: Daddy, what's that ladder for? (pointing to metal ladder attached to the back of an 18-wheeler)

Me: That's so people can climb up to the top of the truck.

Gigglegirl: Ohhhh...

Me: ....so they can go up and get the Mynocks off.

Gigglegirl: (puzzled) What's a...Mynock?

Me: It's these big leathery lizard bird things that fly around and eat through the top of trucks.

Gigglegirl: (pause) Ohhhh....


I'm a b-a-a-a-d boy...