How Things Work

Yesterday, the kids and I were watching a movie. The movie had two main characters, both male. One is thin...the other is not. In the final scene of the movie, two girls showed up to ask the guys on dates. Tripp noted that the fat guy would get the ugly girl. I asked which one he thought was ugly, and he pointed her out. Megan asked, "The one who looks like Mama?" I looked at her in askance. She immediately launched into an explanation that would make it seem less like she just described her mother as "the ugly one." This explanation involved saying "Well, not how you look NOW...maybe how you used to look. When you were young."