Saturday, February 02, 2008

One upmanship

This conversation with my not yet six year old daughter a few weeks ago led me to to imagine what it shall be like to attempt to keep up with her intellectually over the next few decades.

Eowyn: I'm a tiger. I'm going to eat you up.

Benjamin: Well I'm a bear, and I'm going to eat *you* up!

E: Well I'm a *bigger* tiger!

B: Well I'm a virus!

E: What's a virus?

B: (short explanation of virus)

E: (after *briefest* of pauses to digest virus explanation) Well *I'm* a black hole!

Thus does Benjamin's ship sink, having been disintegrated in whole by my lovely daughter. What the *hell* was I supposed to say next? Completely and utterly speechless I was. A black hole!?! No fair!

3 comments:

byron smith said...

Sounds like your daughter ought to face off against the Moffatts' Little Man while you and they lick your wounds.

Megs said...

dear Eowyn!! I love that we get to be parents of these two brilliant girls!

Joe said...

Hahahahaha

that'll teach you for trying to outwit a 6 year old.

I was telling my 7-year old about a vegetarian man who ate road kill. She just looked at me strangely and said - well if he eats meat, he isn't a vegetarian is he. durr.