Two recent conversations with Sam.
Among the peas and corn
Sam: Can you eat the Jelly Green Giant?
Mommy: Oh, it's not 'jelly'; it's 'jolly.' He's the Jolly Green Giant. Jolly means 'really happy.' That's why he laughs in the commercial they used to play when I was a kid, (singing). "Ho! ho! ho! Gre-en Gi-ant!"
- long pause -
Sam: But. .. can you eat the Jolly Green Giant?
Mommy: You still want to eat him? Um, I guess so; maybe. Looks like he's made out of peas.
Reading in bed
Sam: Why does the blind man have a dog?
Mommy: Well, the dog helps him get around. It's called a Seeing-Eye Dog. It tells him when there is a walk signal, and when to step down off of curbs, and when there is a sign in the way on the sidewalk. Things like that.
Sam: The dog tells him!?
Mommy: Well, the dog doesn't talk: it stops walking or sits or does other things that the blind man can feel because he's holding on to the dog's special leash.
Sam: Oh... (puzzled)
Mommy: Do you know what I mean? He can feel if the dog sits down and so he stops walking and knows what to do just by knowing the signal the dog gives...
- still puzzled -
Sam: Um, does being 'blind' mean that you don't have any hair?
Mommy: Ohhhh, no. That's bald. Bald men don't need the dogs.
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