Sebastian is my seven-year old and he says some of the funniest things–we have no idea where he gets his material since his mother and I are rather boring, serious people.
Call me what you will, but during car rides, I like to keep the boys on their toes. The other day I was alone with Sebastian, so we fell into a number game. We recently started playing “Slug Bug” (“Punch Buggy” for some of you) and I told him that I had dreamt about a classic Slug Bug convertible (the older style VW Beetle, which the convertible model is worth a whopping 25 slugs in our game).
One morning I told Sebastian that I had actually dreamed about a classic convertible slug bug in my sleep, and that I should get the aforementioned points.
Seba: “Oh yeah? Well I saw two of them in my dream.”
Me: “Really? Well, I saw four.”
Seba (who almost always jumps to the end game quickly): “Well I saw infinity.”
Me (hoping to make this into more of a learning exercise): “Well, you can’t really get any points for that since you can’t multiply infinity by 25.”
Sebastian: “OK, I saw a million then.”
Me: “Two million.”
Seba: “100 million.”
Me: “200 million.”
Seba: “400 million.”
Me: “800 million.”
Seba: “900 million.”
Me: “999 million.”
Seba: “One thousand million.”
Me: “You don’t say that–what is the word for a thousand million?”
Seba: “A billion?”
Me: “Good! Well, I saw two billion.”
Seba: “Four billion.”
Me: “Eight billion.”
…
Me: “999 billion.”
Seba: “One thousand billion!”
Me: “You don’t say that either….”
Seba: “One trillion?”
Me: “Good! Two trillion.”
…
Me: “999 trillion. And don’t say ‘one thousand trillion’!”
[After a long pause and a couple false starts…]
Seba: “Um, well, … , let’s just say I dreamed about more than you.”
A perfectly witty child. Sebastian 1- Father 0
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The score is far more in his favor than that!
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Lol
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Kudos to dad for playing along!
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Just trying to keep them on their toes….
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Tell Seba I usually dream in thousands of yotta 😉
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I will!
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