Dad: What did you do today?
Boy: The same. Looked out the window.
Dad: What did you see?
Boy: The same. Giraffes.
Dad: What were they doing?
Boy: The same. Eating the clouds.
Dad: (silence)
Boy: That’s why it was nice out today. I made them eat all the clouds.
Dad: Good boy.
[conversation overheard in schoolyard, September 13, 2001]