That Age
"How old are you?" a friend's six year old boy asked me today, while we were playing a game in which I would throw a paper plane toward him (roughly) and he would bat it back with a plastic sword.
"Forty-seven," I said.
"That's....." he began, then thought, produced a series of false-start half-syllables, then finally said, "That's old for that age."
"Forty-seven," I said.
"That's....." he began, then thought, produced a series of false-start half-syllables, then finally said, "That's old for that age."