Mar
22
2014

Learning About Guns: When Childhood Innocence Fades Away

Alternate title: The fifty-third most awkward onion metaphor on the internet

The game is a simple one. Often, when we're out at a restaurant that offers crayons as a pre-meal distraction, my kid will grow bored of colouring and instruct me to cover my eyes. She'll arrange a few crayons into the shape of a letter or a number or some other random thing and ask me to guess what it is.

"Is it a square?"

"No, it's a zero. Now cover your eyes again!"

Pause.

"Ok, open them."

"Hmm, that looks like an M."

"Nope it's a W. You're looking at it upside down."

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