Foreigner

While we were eating ice cream I asked Joel to tell me some of his favorite memories. I used prompts. What's your favorite memory about....a dog? He said, "Lady." (Our previous dog.) I said, "Joel, you can't remember her. She died when you were just 8 months old.

"Oh." (Takes another lick of the ice cream.")

"What is your favorite memory of a foreigner?" I asked.

"What's a foreigner?" he asked.

I was too tired to give a precise answer, so out came a lazy one. "A foreigner is someone not from around here," I said.

"Oh, I know! That kid from New Hamster!"