When Parenting Meets Common Sense
(I’m an attendant at a landfill. One day, a customer stops on the way out and puts down the back window so his child can ask:)
Child: “Why does our dog have to stay in the car?”
Me: “Because he’s not wearing shoes. There are broken glass and sharp bits of metal on the ground; we don’t want your dog walking barefoot on that any more than we want you walking barefoot on it.”
(The father looks awestruck.)
Father: “Good answer!”