I overheard a discussion yesterday that I would never have had when I was 5 years old.
Carbon and Daycare Boy were pretending to have rocket ships and they were going to Jupiter in them.
Daycare Boy: “My rocket ship is faster than yours, so I’ll get there first.”
Carbon: “Faster isn’t better. My rocket ship takes one drop of gas and goes forever, so it’s better for the environment.”
Daycare Boy: “No, my rocket ship has better gas mileage.”
Carbon: “What is its gas mileage?”
Daycare Boy: “It takes one million drops and it goes one million miles.”
Carbon: “Mine only takes one drop and goes forever. Forever is more than a million.”
It degenerated into a “mines better” “No, mine’s better” argument after that, and I had to step in and remind them that in their imaginations they can make both rockets be great. But I got a kick out of their gas mileage concerns!
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