At dinner:
Sarah: Why is there foil on the pizza, Daddy?
Dad: To keep it warm, sweetie.
Sarah: Why?
Dad: ‘Cause of thermodynamics and stuff.
Sarah: Why?
Dad: ‘Cause of those guys who came after Newton.
Sarah: …
Sarah: Why were they chasing him?
Dad: He shot a man in Reno.
Sarah: Mom, why are you laughing? It’s not funny!
January 29th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Mom is laughing because she’s looking back in time to her own family dinner table when she lost her gullibility.
January 29th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
An, incidentally, learned never to let her father near her with a scissors.