I think I've told him he was smart a time too many.

Babysitting my 7-yo nephew tonight. LittleDorky turns to him at the dinner table and says, “Hey cuz, you wanna hear the story of the Universe?” I manage to surreptitiously film it. I’ll transcribe it here for you:

The science is a little sketchy and his ‘storytelling skills’ need to be polished, but whatever. Obviously mom is the only one going to sit through this. The last line is for me, as the cousin had wandered off mid-stream, bored. I must have been grinning at him like a doofus. So as these words are leaving his lips (I replied, “Yes I do!”)- he resumes eating. His salad. With his fingers. :rolleyes:

Brace yourself; Today it’s astronomy he’s expounding upon but soon enough it’ll be reproductive biology.

oh mercy. That’s a set of explosions and planet forging I am not ready to hear about from him!

Put it on youtube. It will get a million hits. People love that shit! I would personally like to see it. Like that little girl explaining Star Wars to her dad, it’s adorable.

In fact I thought of that, but in the video he has horrible red eye the whole time. He looks possessed. If I could figure out how to edit red eye from the video, I might do. Will link to you if it ever happens.

That’s a bad thing for a Youtube video?

Oh, well, when you put it that way. It might just be the thing to push it over the top. We’ll see. He also, at the very beginning of the video, says “Ahem. Stop recording me.” to which I blatantly lied that I wasn’t. So, I think I’ll ask him for his permission first!

I almost always eat salad with my fingers* (well, if I’m at home and not out in public). I think it’s a sign of great intelligence.

*this is one of the reasons I almost never use dressing. The other is that I just think it’s generally icky.

Kids are hilarious with numbers. Overheard a few years ago: “But dad! We won’t be able to eat for a million hours! Or EIGHTY hours!”

Wait… so you eat salad with your fingers… Naked?

The usual way to eat salad is with a knife and fork? Guess I’ve just never noticed how other people eat salad - I always use my fingers.

So cute! Save his story to print out and put inside his high school graduation card.

No, leave that in, it will help increase the hits.

What? :confused: