We were doing some Christmas shopping the other day and as we were driving in the car, our 4-year old, Audrey asks my wife, "Do more people get arrested at night or during the day?" It wasn't quite in the league of "where do babies come from mommy", but it wasn't the normal question about Disney princesses or what we were having for dessert. Dana answered that she thought that the police helped more people at night time and more people were probably brought to jail at night time, too.
This only prompted her 7-year old brother, Andy to chime in with, "Of course more people get arrested at night. They dress in black and hide in the shadows so the police can't see them and they hide under the windows to steal things out of the houses. Some of them are thugs in a gang or mean customers and some of them can be ninjas, too." At this point the flood gates opened and Dana and I just listened.
"If I was a ninja I would wear pink," replied Audrey.
"The police would see you and then you wouldn't be a very good robber," Andy continued.
"I still like pink and I would be quiet," Audrey persisted.
"You would still be caught. Good robbers know how to hide in the shadows and pick locks and steal things."
"I don't like to be arrested, but I do like pink."
It was like listening to two conversations where both people were talking but neither one of them listening. It was polite and cordial, just made no sense whatsoever. And here I thought the nights of reading the Hardy Boys mysteries to him were because he liked them, and not to give him pointers on how to be a better criminal. Although, I still am not sure where the Ninjas came from.
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