SETTING: The dinner table. We’re having spaghetti. The Daughter has just twirled a big bunch of spaghetti onto her fork.
THE DAUGHTER: Look! My fork is a mummy!
ME: Wow, you know what mummies are?
THE DAUGHTER: There’s a mummy in one of my books, but I don’t know what they are. They’re people that are wrapped in toilet paper or something.
ME: Oh! Well, then. Mummies are the way the people in Ancient Egypt, a long time ago, used to store their dead people. They wrapped them in bandages.
THE DAUGHTER: Ewwww! But when my great-grandma was buried, why didn’t they wrap her in bandages?
It was all downhill from there.
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