Question of the day

Last night we were driving home and were stopped at a light. I looked to my left and saw a Maricopa County Sherriff's truck. As we sat there we watched two teenage boys running back and forth across the street on the other side of the intersection. There was a vacant lot with 8 foot high construction fence around it and one of the boys started to jump the fence.

John: I can't believe that cop is not seeing this.

The sheriff immediately flashed his lights from the turn lane and hit his siren.

Abby: Those boys are in trouble.

Josh: What is the police man doing?

Abby: He is going to take those boys home to their daddy and they are going to get a whuppin.

Josh: What's a whuppin?

John: That is a step up from a spank.

Josh: (solemnly from the back seat) Oh.

I sat there and thought of the dumb things my friends and I used to do on Friday nights and wondered if I am really up for this parenthood business. Joshua's Oh killed me and I can not get over how he now knows what a whuppin is, it will be fun waiting to hear him use it in a sentence, I am sure somehow this is going to come back and bite me in the butt.