Interpretation

Kids can be so interesting on a multitude of levels at the most opportune times. In our town there was a building that was run down, nasty, and good for nothing. It was probably cockroach, flea, and termite infested. One day as we were driving by,we saw the building was being torn down, and the littler kids wanted to know why. We told them it was no good, termite infested, AND maybe they needed to build something else there.

A couple months passed and we payed no attention to the building and reconstruction until one day we noticed that a new McDonald's was being built (not one of our favorite places to eat!) We proceeded to talk about how the other yucky building was all gone and look at the new building, it was a new McDonald's all nice and clean. End of conversation.

A couple of weeks later we were running to and fro, school, work, sports, etc, kids were STARVING so we decided to go through a McDonald's drive through. As we were approaching the order screen, our son yells from the back, "WE CAN'T EAT HERE, MCDONALD'S COOKS TERMITES"!

Luckily, I am pretty sure the employee did not hear the comment, but it took some long and hard convincing for my son to believe that he was NOT eating termites. This has benefited us also though because Mickey D's is our kids least favorite place to eat! It is interesting to see a kids interpretation of a situation come to life.

(Maybe they do serve TERMITES?!?)