Quote of the week

[kirisutogomen]

Last week saw a bunch of family that I don't see too often, which provided the opportunity for this. A variety of family members sitting around a table eating dessert, I'm rattling on about something or other, and my 9-year-old cousin V interjects (addressing me), "Do you have an off button?"

Comments

[jaedian]

hah! I have wished for one on my two girls for ages.

[countertorque]

Nope.

[kirisutogomen]

Indeed. He was very disappointed. So I spent the next ten minutes asking him "so if cartwheels aren't really wheels, then what kind of wheels do carts have?" after which we moved on to pinwheels.

In retrospect, he may not actually have required such a mountain of evidence to support my assertion that I do not possess an off button. Well, better safe than sorry.