TELL ME A FUNNY…

Well, this may be funny to me and me alone, but it goes into the “Kids say the darndest things” category! When we first moved back to Winnipeg, Nicholas, my youngest, had just turned five years old.  We lived down wind of the Maple Leaf slaughter house and some nights if the wind was blowing our way it just reaked outside.  The kids would always complain about the smell and I would say, “it’s from the Meat plant.” One particularly stinky night, when I gave my standard answer, Nick wailed, “Well why don’t they cut it down?”  I couldn’t figure it out for a minute and then suddenly it hit me that he thought I meant a plant like a weed or something.  Here all along he’d been picturing some smelly gigantic plant made of meat! And he couldn’t figure out why anyone would want to keep one! 

Courtesy of Sarah Jane