It is finally spring and with all the construction going on here in Frisco, the small animals are out and about. It makes for a lot of dead animals on the roads in the mornings. On the way to ballet a couple of weeks ago, we smelled a skunk (or a stunk, as Campbell calls them). She asked what the smell was and we talked about the skunk. Later in the day, I smelled another one and I said "I smell a skunk." She very quickly replies "I smell the green stuff." The rest of the conversation went something like this:
"You smell the grass?"
"No, the green stuff."
"The flowers?"
"NO, the green stuff!"
"What green stuff?"
"Mom, you know, the stinky green stuff."
"What stinky green stuff?"
"The stunk."
"The stunk smell is green?"
"Yeah Mom, Dora smells green stuff."
Then I understood. When things stink on TV, it is always portrayed as a green cloud, so she assumed a stunk would make a green smell. Yeah, it's spring and we smell lots of green stuff. We probably watch too much TV too.
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