Yesterday, while participating in an animal sounds storytime, a child began asking me a series of questions that continued to escalate:
Question 1: “Do ducks bite?”
My answer: “I don’t know, but we don’t really get close to wild animals.”
After a bit, we had Question 2: “Do cows bite?”
My answer: “I don’t know. I don’t think so.”
And later on, close to the end of storytime: “Do tigers live in New York?”
WINNER! My answer: “Only in zoos. Tigers mostly live in Asia, which is far away.”
I’m not sure if this little guy is taking a trip to New York and got concerned about encountering a tiger on the street, or if he’d recently heard something about New York (we WERE talking about tigers). But what he followed this question up with was a complete surprise:
Statement 1: “My daddy shot an alligator.”
My response: “…………..”
Next time you see him, tell him that he should never turn his back on a turkey. a turkey bit my booty when I was 4, and I never forgot it. those MFs are mean!