My nerdy kid eats thesauri for breakfast

[ciroccoj]

Me: Daniel, are you getting ready for bed?
Daniel: ...
Me: Should I take it from your silence that you weren't?
Daniel: I am now... and when you asked, I was getting ready. Albeit lethargically, for me, and therefore at a near-glacial pace.

Comments

[bast2.livejournal.com]

What a cute, precocious answer. And what a vocabulary!

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

I too, had my Thesaurus flakes every morning! Good for him! I remember laughing at a rather thick schoolmate who asked if it was a book about prehistoric animals.