Kids

(going-6-year-old Bryce wants to go swimming at his cousin's pool)
Me: You can't do that! There's a thunderstorm over there!
B: So?
Me: Dude, do you know what happens when lightning hits water and you're in it?
B: (doesn't skip a beat) Fried Chicken? 8D
Me: Yea. :|
B: (doesn't skip a beat) So I can eat myself then? 8D
Me: ...that's an optimistic way of thinking about it.

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Man, I feel partly envious of the kid. Well not really since at that time he was supposed to be working on his KUMON homework and I was trying to keep him in line. But all the spontaneously unashamed brazen and imaginative energy in this kid, from the weird faces he would pull, crazy gibberish, rapid changing of voice, pitch, tempo and volume,  I could not help but look and pray life and society does not take away from him this wonderful energy he has-

-that and I wish I knew how I could have sketched it all but keep him working on his HW at the same time!