Smarter kids today?

When my kids were all fairly young, my daughter, Margaret was definitely "Miss Preppy". She wanted Izod or nothing. No JCPenny for her. So I told her, "I'll pay for what a shirt would cost at JCP and if you want IZOD, you pay the difference".


She had a pair of worn out socks which sported the famous alligator on them, and thinking I had a brilliant idea said, "Hey, we can take the alligator off your socks and put it on one of your plain shirts and no one will know the difference". With a scathing look that could have burned a hole in me from ten feet away she retorted, "But I would know"!


I was reminded of this because my son was telling me about a kid who works for him who bought a bottle of water because he liked the waterfall on the bottle. The kid said "It only cost $1.59". "Are you kidding me, you paid $1.59 for that?" Defending himself, the kid said, "But it has no transfats and no sugar". Paul told the kid, "It's w a t e r, you know, W A T E R"!