HANNAH: I just heard Oscar telling a story about John the Baptist and exploding locusts. Do you have any idea what that’s about?
ME: Uhhhhhhm. Let me go check.
(I enter the dining room where her three children and my three children are having tuna sandwiches. Ben, 8, and Oscar, 7, are giggling. Between giggles Oscar is declaiming.)
OSCAR: …so you see that if you read the Bible you will learn how to be a very good soldier…
ME: Oscar? What is that all about?
OSCAR (with a big cheesy grin, squinting): Noooooothiiiiiiiiiiing.
BEN (stifling giggles): We are talking about something else.
ME: Uh, what was that about John the Baptist and, uh, locusts and soldiers?
(Ben and Oscar confer for a minute in whispers)
BEN: He was talking about John the Bombtist.
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