2006-01-09 - 2:29 p.m.
The woman in front of me in the sandwich shop just now ordered �a cup of tea to drink�, as opposed to a cup of tea to experiment on or dress in small human clothes and raise as a cuppy member of her immediate family, I suppose.
On the bus yesterday:
Small Asian kid: Daddy, what�s this? (does sign of the cross)
Dad: (looking a bit taken aback): It�s the sign of the cross. When did you see that?
Kid: When I was watching the boxing. Is it a sports thing?
Dad: No, it�s to do with Jesus.
Kid: I might start using it�you know�when I�m fighting and that.
Dad: �
Then a few minutes later:
Kid: Dad, did you go on honeymoon?
Dad: Well, me and your mum just went to a hotel for a few days.
Kid: A fancy hotel?
Dad: Kind of.
Kid: With a plasma screen TV?
Dad: No,
Kid: Why?
Dad: It was 1986.
(silence for a minute)
Kid: Dad?
Dad: Yes?
Kid: Did you not go abroad because mummy already had a baby in her tummy?
Dad: �