A Cute Way Of Saying It

(I’m in grade school. There’s a girl in the first grade with somewhat of a social problem. She has trouble reading social cues — more so than an average seven-year-old — and tends to blurt out whatever she’s thinking. Everyone in the small school is used to it and nobody hassles her about it. Teachers generally ignore her when she puts her hand up in group settings; they would rather answer her questions in private afterwards. One day, all the students are gathered to watch a presentation about owls.)

Presenter: “Owls have an acute spine. Does anyone know what ‘acute’ means?”

(The little girl puts up her hand and the presenter, blissfully unaware, picks her to answer the question.)

Girl: “IT MEANS IT’S TINY AND VERY SEXY!”