The eight-year-old boy's mind.

[LaraMN]

NoelMN seems so mature and informed; I often forget he's still very young, and as such, he harbors some weird ideas about the way the world works.

While riding in the car, he asked me if dogs without homes went to "the pound." I told him it was called the Animal Shelter here, but that referred to the same kind of place. He asked me if they killed animals there. I said that they sometimes had to, if they couldn't find homes for them. I described the process by which animals are euthanized, and he said, "Ohhhh. I thought at the pound, they had this big metal machine, and it had a big piece that came down on the dogs, and pounded 'em to death, and that's why they call it 'the pound'".


:wow: :scared:

[swag]

1. Makes sense.

I remember when I was on a car trip with my parents when I was 6, we were going through Iowa and they kept talking about Cedar Rapids. I was crushed when I finally understood that we weren't going to see the rabbits.

[undeterred]

2. Thats what I did too!

Are you my long lost twin?

[swag]

4. Could be. I lived in Madison in 1964 and Black Earth from 1965 - 69.

[undeterred]

9. I grew up in the Chicago area

but we always drove west on family vacations...

[undeterred]

3. When I was little I thought breaking a leg meant it broke off

like a doll's leg. So I always looked horrified when my mom said someone had a broken arm or leg. I thought it broke off.

[LaraMN]

8. Oh no!

:scared: :rofl:
Sometimes I wonder how kids can even sleep at night....

[matcom]

5. Congrats!

you're raising the next Ted Bundy :D

:hide:

[LaraMN]

6. I'm sending him to your house, first.

:thumbsup: :P

[matcom]

7. It puts the lotion in the baaaaasssssket

:bounce:

[trackfan]

10. I thought the liquor store was the "licker" store

because you bought "lickers" there, like Sugar Daddy, Popsicles, Sidewalk Sundaes etc.

I thought the curious word lye-kwor on all these stores was something else.

[XNASA]

11. When he was 5, my brother thought that since pepper makes food hotter...

Salt must make it cooler.

So he heavily salted any food that arrived on his plate that was too hot to eat.

[SteppingRazor]

12. When I was very young, I used to think that, up until the 1950s or so...

the entire world had been in black and white in real life, because that's how all the movies looked.