Here's another true story, speaking of little kids...

I was waiting for my son in the parking lot at the bank one fine winter's day, sitting there minding my own business, having a smoke, windows down, sunroof open as usual. THere's a family getting into a van on the other side of the parking lot, loading in Grandpa with his wheelchair, a few pairs of skiis etc. A little kid wanders away from the group and over toward me. He looks about 4. He stands there in front of my car staring at me for a minute. Then he said "You shouldn't smoke. Smoking is BAD."

I decide to ignore it, hoping it will go away. No such luck. "You shouldn't SMOKE! SMOKING IS BAD!! YOU ARE BAD!! ..." he chants on and on. Squelching the urge to throw something light but dirty at him, I finally look him straight in the eye, scowl up nasty as I can and tell him "You shouldn't talk to strangers. Its BAD!!!"

Shocked into silence, he hedges around for a sec and then says defiantly "I am NOT talking to strangers!!!!" And runs back over to his family in about 2 seconds flat.

Hee hee!   I think that kid is really going places, actually. He was pretty cute, and hey --- at only 4, he's already showing the same levels of intelligence and social smarts as the 44yr old in my last story!