“If you can put five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not, a door.”
found dialogue
At the Zoo (first animal in)
- 8 year old: What are these maps?
- Parent: Well, the red shows where in the world flamingos actually live.
- 8 year old: Why do they live in those places.
- Parent: Well I think it might be because all those place are hot and damp, so there’s water, they like water.
- 8 year old: It’s not red where we live.
- Parent: No, they don’t normally live in England.
- 8 year old: So why are they here.
- Parent: Well, people brought them here, built them this enclosure, and they get fed everyday.
- 8 year old: Oh…
- 8 year old: So they’re trapped.
- Parent: Um..well…yes…I suppose they are.
- 8 year old: >>wanders off giggling to herself<<
“How can a mummy be alive when it has no internal organs?”
Conversation of the Weekend
- 5 year old A: “Daddy, why didn’t people see dinosaurs?”
- Grown-Up: “Well, they died a very long time ago.”
- 5 year old A: “Before people?”
- Grown-Up: “A long time before there were people.”
- 5 year old A: “Oh”
- 5 year old B: “Yes, they died on the cross.”
- Grown-Up: “……..ermm…no, I think that might’ve been Jesus”
How to be an Explorer of the World
by Keri Smith
(via)
“if you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.”
7 year old: “Love does not include nastiness”
Actual Conversation
- Lil’One A: I don’t like this coat, it’s too funky
- Me: But, you see, there is no such thing as too funky
- Lil’One B: No, she means “fluffy”
- Me: oh
Paul Greer 