Small fry: "do you have a book about a dinosaur you probably don't know about that lived in the sea during the Ice Age? Me: "hmmm. I bet we can figure something out. Do you know it's name?" Small fry: "Well, like I said, it lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (truly... no exaggerating here) and it's a really, really big shark, and they call it a Megalodon". Me: head down, typing furiously. Small fry: "I went to the big library with three floors downtown and they only had one book in the whole place." Me: sinking heart, but then, elation: "we do have a book, let's go find it." Phew.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
humility.
Small fry: "do you have a book about a dinosaur you probably don't know about that lived in the sea during the Ice Age? Me: "hmmm. I bet we can figure something out. Do you know it's name?" Small fry: "Well, like I said, it lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (truly... no exaggerating here) and it's a really, really big shark, and they call it a Megalodon". Me: head down, typing furiously. Small fry: "I went to the big library with three floors downtown and they only had one book in the whole place." Me: sinking heart, but then, elation: "we do have a book, let's go find it." Phew.
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My knowledge of dinosaurs at that age ran to this little poem we illustrated in elementary school:
The Dinosaur was big.
The Dinosaur was mean.
He had the fiercest kind of teeth,
That I have ever seen.
But I bet you wouldn't have that in your library, would you?
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