Wednesday, December 05, 2007

That's a Pretty Funny Answer!

Cam and Stuart were riding to school on Tuesday when they had to pause for a train. While waiting they saw two trucks loaded down with tobacco. Having helped his grandfather with the hanging of tobacco years before, Stuart wanted to wax nostalgic with Cam and pointed out the tobacco on the back of the trucks.
"What's tobacco?" Cam inquired.
"It's a plant that they grow in Kentucky."
"What's it used for?" he pressed.
"Well...people make cigarettes out of it" Stuart replied.
"What's a cigarette?" Cam asked.
Oh, boy, "Cam Cigarettes are things that people smoke. But we don't want to do that because it makes your teeth yellow, your breath smells bad and it can even kill you."
"How does it kill you?" the inquisitive one responded.
"Well...God made all of the parts on the inside of you to work together. All the parts have to work together for you to live. Cigarettes can cause cancer which is a disease that grows inside of you and can keep some of your parts from working and you could die."
"What do cigarettes look like?"
"They're white sticks that people carry in their mouth."
"Oh, man. Like half the people have those. Why would people want to smoke a cigarette?"
"I really don't know Cam."
[Silence]
Cam breaks the silence, "Maybe people smoke cigarettes because they want to die. {giggles} that's a pretty funny answer"

3 comments:

Tammy said...
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Tammy said...

I'm still reading your blog! Those picture of your kids with the white background - amazing! Patty told me today that she got your Christmas card, and the picture is so cute. I didn't get one. I'd better be getting one. :)
Tam

JonesFam4 said...

Its going out. We've had WEIRD stuff with the cards. Some have ended up back in our mailbox, with the bar code on the bottom like they're supposed to be delivered to us...went to the post office and they have no idea what happened, but so far its happened two different days with about 10 cards. STRANGE. I'm still addressing a ton though...we sending, apparently, 9000. :) Nice chatting at you!!! Miss you guys much-o. Cam says he wants to go to the Harps and fall asleep there and wake up at home, except at his new home. He has NO idea how he used to get home!!!