5-YEAR-OLD'S FIRST PAY CHECK

[packman]

9. True story about my boy (now pushing 50)

When he was 4 or so he was playing with a little truck , pushing over soldiers and mowing down toy houses set up on the kitchen floor. My wife's Great Aunt Bertha was sitting at the table and we were having a very sophisticated , cultured conversation about this and that. Now Bertha was a stodgy sort of person, prim and proper and all that. She looked down at little Joey playing with his truck and said, "Now isn't that the cutest thing."

And my kid said, without looking up at her and concentrating on his game, "It may be cute to you, but it's bullshit to me."

To this day, I never heard anyone laugh so loud and long as Bertha did that day.