future problem-solver of America

The other day my phone rang and I noticed it was Jeny, my neighbor across the street who had Alex at her house at the time. As soon as I noticed it was her number I could sense that she was going to tell me Alex was doing something naughty. I just knew it in my mommy gut. So I answered the phone and the conversation went something like this:

"Um, ok, Alex is jumping on the trampoline...totally naked."

A few minutes earlier I had been over and noticed that Alex's pants didn't quite fit...

The boy's not a quitter, you've got to give him that.

So when I got over there, camera in hand, and asked him why on earth he was jumping on the trampoline naked, he replied

"Because my shorts kept falling off!"

So this was his solution. I guess if you take the clothes off then you don't have to worry about that pesky problem of your shorts falling around your ankles.

Makes sense.

So a little while later we had a discussion about, you know, public nudity, and when I asked him if he understood he said,

"Ok, I'm not supposed to show my privates to the whole world."

Which was, in a nutshell, exactly what I said, only not quite in those exact words, but I think he gets the general concept.