At Least You Have Your Priorities Straight
Ten-year-old boy: You know what I would have if I could have four wishes?
Big sister: I don’t know. What?
Ten-year-old boy: One: no drought in Georgia; Two: no global warming; Three: world peace; Four: a Komodo dragon that is really nice and fun to play with, is a vegetarian, lives forever and can grant eternal life.
Druid Hills, Atlanta
Overheard by: Miranda
— After watching Collin put a bag of live crickets into his draw, I asked him if there were any lizards that didn’t have to eat live insects. After a long pause he replied with “Komodo dragons”, to which his sister added: “Yeah, but I think they’re illegal.”