Me: “I’m going to have a nectarine for a snack. Mark, do you want a nectarine? I can cut it up for you.”
Mark: “I don’t like nectarines.”
Me: “Nectarines are bald peaches. You like peaches. You would probably like nectarines.”
Mark: “I don’t like nectarines.”
[same conversation repeats with Kate]
I cut up one nectarine.
Mark: “Hey! That looks like a peach. Can I have a piece?”
Me: “Go ahead.”
Mark: “It TASTES like a peach. Can I have one? I guess I like nectarines.”
Me: “Okay.”
[same conversation repeats with Kate]
Kate: “I wonder how smart a peach would be if its pit were a brain.” [holding up the pit] “It’s pretty big compared to the whole peach.”
Mark: “However smart it would be, it wouldn’t be smarter than ME.”
Kate: “Smarter than you as you are, and as it is, or smarter relative to size? Your brain compared to your body, and its brain compared to it?”
Mark: “Either way. I would be smarter than a PEACH either way.”
Kate: “It’s a nectarine.”