# In Which The Littlest Briston Finds A New Favorite Doper

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**Created:** [June 1, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-littlest-briston-finds-a-new-favorite-doper/623782 "2012-06-01T15:26:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-littlest-briston-finds-a-new-favorite-doper/623782/1 "2012-06-01T15:26:13Z")

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While out driving last night, we were stopped at a light next to the local scuzzball motel. The Littlest Briston has this whole “reading” thing pretty well down pat, so now she calls out pretty much every sign she sees.

“Daddy, what’s a ‘Motor Inn’?”  
_“It’s kinda like a hotel.”_  
“Ohhh…so, can we please please please stay there overnight sometime?” (What _is_ it with kids and hotels?)  
_“Ahh, no.”_  
“Why not??”  
_“One, because we have a perfectly good house less than a mile away, and two, because that place is really dirty.”_  
“What about three?”  
_“Huh?”_  
“You said one and two, so there has to be a three. You can’t make a list of just _two_ things, silly…there _has_ to be three!”

Looks like you’ve got yourself some backup, **OpalCat** …

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-littlest-briston-finds-a-new-favorite-doper/623782/2 "2012-06-01T16:41:23Z")

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> [@Hal\_Briston](#):
>
> While out driving last night, we were stopped at a light next to the local scuzzball motel. The Littlest Briston has this whole “reading” thing pretty well down pat, so now she calls out pretty much every sign she sees.
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> “Daddy, what’s a ‘Motor Inn’?”  
> _“It’s kinda like a hotel.”_  
> “Ohhh…so, can we please please please stay there overnight sometime?” (What _is_ it with kids and hotels?)  
> _“Ahh, no.”_  
> “Why not??”  
> _“[del]One[/del] (A), because we have a perfectly good house less than a mile away, and [del]two[/del] (b), because that place is really dirty.”_  
> “What about three?”  
> _“Huh?”_  
> “You said one and two, so there has to be a three. You can’t make a list of just _two_ things, silly…there _has_ to be three!”
> 
> Looks like you’ve got yourself some backup, **OpalCat** …

Your kid is right , I altered your quote to what you should have said. 😃

This is some what depressing though. This means we have to endure another generation of “Hi Opals”. I was hoping it would die out soon.

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-the-littlest-briston-finds-a-new-favorite-doper/623782/3 "2012-06-01T16:50:12Z")

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As long as they get it right, I don’t mind.