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Random Slice:What ARE we recycling?

Encore child: (Reading the back of her Starbucks hot chocolate cup) Made from 10% post-consumer fibers.

Me: Mm hmm.

Encore child: What does that mean?

Me: It’s recycled.

Encore child: You mean it’s made from the fibers of dead consumers?

Me: I don’t think that’s what they mean by “post-consumer”. (Now I can’t stop thinking of The Secret of Soylent Green)

September 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm (Adventures in Parenting, Sound Bites)

Son: Do we have any “eluction” paper?

Me: You mean “construction” paper?

Son: Yes.

Me: (peering into supply closet) Hmm. Tha’t a big word isn’t it? Construction.

Son: Yes (very sypathetically) it is hard for you to say, isn’t it?

On the way way home from a doctor’s appontment with my 14 year old daughter.

Kyle: Do you think doctor’s get lunch breaks?

Me: I expect so.

Kyle: Cuz, if I ever become a doctor…

Me: You’re going to need to eat?

Kyle: Yeah. If I’m a doctor, the food thing is really gonna be important.