Theo went to day camp over the summer, and it was a largely positive experience all around. However, he did pick up a few things from older kids that I wish he hadn't learned. One is the term "serial killer." He has no idea what this means—he asked us, "Is that someone who kills with cereal?" We told him it's not, but that it's something we'll discuss when he's older, and it's not appropriate to talk about now. Which of course means nothing to him other than probably inspiring him to use the term more often.
So last weekend, good friends of ours offered to watch the boys so we could have a lunch date. When we got back to their house, our grad-school friend said, "He was so good—so polite, saying please and thank you! But he did ask us if we knew what a serial killer was."
"Oh yeah," piped up her husband, "and he wanted to know if he could see our crawlspace."
Good grief, Theo—"Do you know what a serial killer is? And by the way, can I see your crawlspace?" Could you sound any more like a creep?! Thankfully, our friends know Theo and his personality very well and were completely unfazed and laughing about it.
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A cereal killer is someone who doesn't eat cereal with sufficient dispatch so that it dies from sogginess.
Did you ever read *Silas Marner*? Maybe a crawlspace is today's coal hole.
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