It's soccer and our turn to bring the snacks. Fruit and granola bars. This contents most of the children, but there's one, a smaller, chubby kid with a faux-hawk who's a bit confused...
"Do I have to have some fruit?..." he asks me.
"No" I answer.
He asks me again.
"Da Da Do I have to have some fruit?"
His parents are nowhere to be seen.
"Fruit is an important part of a healthy and well balanced diet" I tell him. "I won't make you have any fruit, but you should have some."
A few minutes later, his mouth stuffed with grapes, he starts to talk to me again...
"I'm gonnaa, I'm gonnnaa" he begins, popping grapes in and out of his mouth with his tongue as he speaks, an intense look in his eyes...
"I'm gonna, I'm gonna suck all the juice out of them like like they were bugs and and and I was a a spider"
I'm thinking to myself, like, WTF, and then it dawns on my that this is probably the best conversation I've had all day....
I let him continue.
"You know spiders, they catch insects and then they....."