Friday, March 07, 2008

Melons of the Past

Last night, the Girl related this tale of child-to-child instructions that she had overheard. I thought you might like it.

Three kids were somehow talking about what people eat, perhaps recently having figured out that hamburgers and steaks used to be cows. Regardless of the reason they were talking about "gross things like eating animals and stuff." At this point, one kid, whom we will call the Instructor, decided to impart some knowledge: "A long time ago, there were these people ... and they, they ate people!

"They were called cantaloupes."

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