All of the following were posed to me over the space of 2 hours of hanging out with Rocco, my favoritest 10 year old friend that's a boy.
I'm driving along the 405, and this pipes up from the backseat, 'heidi, if you could have acid rays or acid rain, which would you choose?' Upon choosing the latter, he compliments me. 'Definitely. Cause then you could just open your acid-proof umbrella and run home to your house with anti-acid roof tiles. Acid rays could just burn a hole through both.'
Question #2: We're eating dinner. 'heidi, what was your favorite toy when you were little? Nature counts.'
My choices: 'trees, then my dollhouse.'
His: 'Legos, then nature, whenever i can have it.'
His twin sister's: 'My glass dolphin.'
To which he poses the follow-up query: 'so, what exactly would you do if your dolphin were to disappear?'
Question #3: Again, from the backseat: 'If you could be any explorer, who would you choose?'
He chooses this guy I've never heard of, who, apparently, 'died, but not brutally, and was the only explorer to discover one of the golden cities.'
he also informs me that i should follow his example and stop reading orson scott card's 'ender's game' because 'it's too violent.'
god i wish i was still ten and had all the answers.