Torsten <playing trains>: What will happen if the train driver sits on another train driver?
Me: The other train driver will probably get mad and tell him to get off. Train drivers aren’t supposed to sit on each other.
Torsten: Unless they want to, Mama. Then they can do it.
Me: (pause)
Me: You’re exactly right, Torsten. Then it’s just fine.
Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
HAHAHA! I had a strikingly similar conversation with Sacha the other day, where he asked if it was okay to smell other people’s bums. I said that was not ok. He asked if it was illegal, and I said “only if you don’t know them.”
So awesome
Where do they get this stuff?
You can have the funniest/oddest conversations with young kids. Reminds me some time ago when the topic of death came up from my then-3-year-old girl, and my wife and I were explaining that everyone dies someday, even Mom and Dad would die someday.
Her (bursting into tears): but… but… when you both die, who will turn the TV on for me?!?
It’s called “priorities”
Hey, these are important questions