from the mouths of babes...

well, teenagers anyway. the dj on the radio station we listen to in the car has this contest. people call in and he tells them to name five things in ten seconds. this particular time it was name five countries that start with an A. of course...the contestent was stumped. my son says 'man, i coulda got that...that was an easy one.' so i asked, 'okay, name five countries that start with an A' he pauses...pause...pause....'i would've said atlanta first...isnt atlanta a country?' i almost ran up on the curb. now from the other son. he asks me 'what's your favorite animal?' i say ' a butterfly' he says, 'a butterfly isnt an animal, that's a flower' k, one more. earlier this evening we were in the olive garden. this same son says 'i have special powers' so i bit, 'what kinda powers?' he says, 'you ever notice that when ur taking me to school we never hafta stop at red lights? i concentrate really hard and make all the lights green. the only time it doesnt work is when you are talkin to me and break my concentration' so i start telling him how the original people of the earth had powers like that. and how thru the generations our minds became weak because we got polluted with other things and how we still have the mind power but most of us just dont know how to reach it. then i notice him staring off with his eyes fixed on something and a very serious look on his face. so i ask him what he's doing and he motions towards a wine rack and says 'im trying to tilt one of those bottles over' it was funny. maybe you'd hafta be there.