Kids say the @*$@#$@est things. (not entirely Parrsafe)

[flewellyn]

This is a story from my youth, about ten years ago, when I was 15. I was at the zoo in Syracuse, New York (incidentally, one of the best I've ever seen), with my mother and my sister. We were, at the time, observing the lions, several females and a large, powerful, and proud male.

Along with us was a large gathering of first-grade students, six and seven years old, with teacher and several mothers along for the field trip.

Now, in the midst of this, without warning, the male lion suddenly decides that he wants to have some fun, and mounts one of the females. In full view of everyone. Obviously, he did not care, for he was quite a man indeed!

This same cavalier attitude towards lion congress was not shared by the teacher of the first grade students, or by their parents, who were trying, in an obviously embarassed manner, to shoo the kids along to some other exhibit. Much coughing ensued from me, and from my sister and my mother.

A small, blonde, adorable girl next to me, about six at the most, turned to her mother with huge, innocent eyes and said, "Mommy, what's he doing to the girl lion?"

Before anyone else could answer, an equally small boy next to her turned and said, at full volume, with great pride, the following words:

"THEY'RE FUCKING!"


I believe I am guilty of understatement when I describe this as the most beautiful moment in the history of the universe.

Comments

[cultofisis.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Wonder if his mother was there, running to hide behind shrubbery. :) My daughter is just as vocally embarrassing, so I'm used to that sort of thing now. :)