Last night the family was out to dinner. Dessert time came around and we ordered our son chocolate mousse, which he loves. This particular one came with strawberries as a garnish. Our son does not eat strawberries. I ate the strawberries and he told me -- again -- how he did not like strawberries. I told him that I liked them. A lot. Then he came up with this gem:
"Maybe some day I'll take your brain out and switch it with my brain -- maybe we can get a saw and cut our heads open and then I can take your brain out and put it in my head and I can put my brain in your head -- and then you won't like strawberries."
Aside from the sheer brilliance of his plan (which I'm almost positive he got from a Calvin and Hobbes strip), it got me thinking. What if I could take my 36 year old brain and stick it inside a 5 year old? Sure, it's the stuff of Freaky Friday and countless bad "brain switch" sci-fi movies, but good god, it just might work....
At that moment, my wife hid the hacksaw. Like drawing a schematic diagram meant I was really going to do it.
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Kids really do say the cutest things.
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