Children Can Be Very (Sam)Wise
My wife is from another country, and English is her second language; she doesn’t know American idioms very well, but along with our toddler, she is learning.
[Toddler] is on the couch in her diaper, eating snacks, and watching TV instead of getting ready.
Me: “Hey baby, I got to go to work, will you miss me?”
Toddler: “No, you don’t like TV, go to work.”
Wife: “Don’t cry, she just wants to be a, hmm, potato chair?”
Me: “Couch potato.”
Wife: “Is that because she looks like a potato with no shirt on?”
Toddler: “Pooo-taaaa-tooo, boil’m, mash’em put them in a stew.”
My wife looks at me, confused. I taught my daughter well.
