Alissa and I were sitting on the couch talking about how we would like to spend the rest of our day and then discussing what time Oliver should be waking from his nap. Then Alissa starts the following conversation. I'm not hard of hearing I was just really, really confused through out this entire conversation.
ALissa: 'Did you know that Knut just died?"
Me: "What?"
Alissa: "Knut, he just died."
Me: "What?"
Alissa: "Knut, K.N.U.T, Knut, he just died."
Me: "Thank you for spelling that for me, but I still have no idea who or what Knut is."
Alissa: "Knut, the panda and the San Diego zoo. He just died. Isn't that sad and really scary?"
Me: "Oh...That sucks but why is a panda dying scary?"
Alissa: "Because, he was just walking around in circles and then fell over in his water bowl and drowned. Isn't that scary?"
Me: "I guess if you were standing between him and the water bowl."
Alissa: "He was the only living male panda and he just died, and he had been around all the female pandas. That's why it's so scary."
Me: "What?"
Ok, first, Knut is a Polar Bear, not a Panda, second, he didn't live at the San Diego Zoo, he lived at the Berlin Zoo...And there are 2 male Panda's at the San Diego Zoo, we saw them a few weeks ago. They did determine he died of a massive infection in his brain and are worried about the females he had been around. But this conversation sounds very familiar to me and I am pretty sure Ed will tell you he and I have had some very similar ones over the past 34 years!! So she does come by it honestly. Sorry I passed that on to her... : )
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