What's Your Favorite Vegetable?

On Friday I was out at an elementary school all day for their enrichment day. I was playing my Great Savings Race with 3rd graders and after determining that more than a few of the 3rd grade boys are saving for Ferraris and Lamborginis (I can't spell that but neither can they!) I headed to the bathroom for a quick break. In the child sized stalls ( I couldn't find the teacher's bathroom) I was doing my thing when I heard a litte voice from a few stalls over - "Are you a 3rd grader or a 5th grader?"
I'm an adult.
"Oh. What's your skin color."
White.
"What's your favorite fruit?"
Watermelon - which actually it's a toss up between cherries, peaches and watermelon but I was under pressure!
"What's your favorite vegetable?"
Peas! I got that one right.
At this point we have both emerged from our stalls to wash our hands and there is this teeny 3rd grader going on about asparagus and isn't it just the greatest vegetable in the world? Can you count asparagus as a vegetable? I said I think we could and she gave me the biggest grin like I'd just said I have a plateful for her right there in my purse. She was a little fashion diva with her winter scarf tied around her butt and dragging on the ground and she chatted up asparagus with me all the way back to our classrooms - all the while sashaying like that scarf was the most brilliant fashion idea anyone has ever come up with and she was the first to think of it.

A few days before that, I was playing a credit game with some 18 yr old boys who were about to be out in the big wide world on their own. When I explained one of the latest credit card fraud scams to them, one of the boys said "well that's a bowl of F*%$." I have never heard it put more accurately or eloquently.

This is how I get to spend my days!