Thursday, August 7, 2008

"Because I like them that way..."

Turner has a new answer for everything. Surprisingly, or maybe not so much, it is also an answer I frequently provide after several rounds of "real" answers do not quiet the "Why?" Most days this week he has come home from school with his underwear backwards. He leaves for school with them the appropriate way, but turns them around at some point (in privacy) at school. The first day (last Thursday) I asked who changed his underwear, mistaking Ramone on his front side as different underwear than the ones he left in. He explained to me that he liked to have them a different way and that when he went to the bathroom at school he decided to change them around. The next day it was much the same story. Tuesday I asked him to turn them around because he couldn't keep pulling the front side out of his backside. I tried to ask him why he wanted to wear them that way if they were so uncomfortable, as indicated by the constant digging motions. He smiled and said, "But they are comdfordable this way." Ok. This morning he gets clean and I ask him to pick out a pair of underwear and put them on. He returns to the bathroom with LIghtnight McQueen spread across his backside, but the underwear are inside out. I smile.
"Why do you have your underwear on inside out?"
He is puzzled. I explain what inside out means. He turns around and around in the bathroom like a kid checking out his tail and then looks up to me. Serious and calm he says, "Well." long paus. "Because I like them that way. That way Lightning can see what's going on in there." Ok.

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