Day 270 OMG or The Wisdom of a Toddler

A Toddler asked me today why girls don’t have willies, like boys. I told him God gave willies to boys and gentlemen, but not to girls and ladies. ‘Have you got a bum?’ was his next question. ‘Yes, I have.’ I said ‘Have you?’ ‘Me, too.’ He announced in great excitement. I was ever so glad there was no ‘Whys’ in this conversation. I really wouldn’t have known what to say. I am very good at explaining over and over again who, why and how might have broken a road sign, thrown a Coke can on the pavement or why don’t all women have milk in their boobies and why it is not a good idea to have yet another peanut butter bread just before bedtime, but not the technicality behind creation. God knows, what He was thinking. And we are certainly dealing with the consequences. Later on looking at the patches on my jeans as I was sitting on the floor, the Toddler said: ‘You shouldn’t have too many patches on your trousers, because they are going to blow up.` And he suggested I should throw them away and buy new ones. After that he counted the wholes on his T-shirt and on my dress. We both had two each. Not enough evidence to throw them, I suppose. ‘Do you really think I should buy new trousers?’ I asked. And suddenly all my masters education has been questioned by the straight forwardness of a Toddler: ‘Yeah.’ Of course my trousers won’t blow up from another couple of patches, but they don’t look good either. I told him I might buy a cheap one, but suddenly I realised I am not supposed to buy stuff, as I have a lot clothes already and I made this environmental friendly and socially responsible promise not to buy any clothes at all for a long-long time in order to avoid creating waste. ‘I don’t think am gonna buy any, because I have a lot of trousers in Hungary, so these should do until I go home.’ And I thought I should just put one big patch on it instead of all the little ones and I should make sure I don’t have other hole around my knee. And we started to read a book.