Me:
“No, she wasn’t.”
Troy:
“Yeah, she wanted to be, but her mama didn’t let her.”
Me:
“That’s correct, bud. So, is that what you want to be? Do you want to be an
astronaut?”
Troy:
“No.”
Me:
“Then, what do you want to be? Do you want to be a firefighter and put out
fires, or a doctor and help people, or an engineer and build things, or a
musician and sing? You can be anything you want. What do you want to be?”
Troy:
“I want to build things.”
Me:
“Okay, so you want to be an engineer?”
Troy:
“Yeah.”
Me:
“And what do you want to build? Cars, boats, airplanes, buildings, robot arms,
what?”
Troy:
“I want to build robot arms, the one that has the tentacles. But when she’s
upset with them, Rhino takes them, and he says that he’s Rhinoctopus.”
Me:
“Yes, he does. So, you want to build things like Doc Ock?”
Troy:
“No. No, I don’t. Doc Ock is not a robot. She’s mean.”
Me:
“Yeah, but she builds robot arms. She has robot arms.”
Troy:
“Actually octopus tentacles.”
Me:
“But they’re…they’re like robot arms though, right?”
Troy:
“Mmmm, hmmm.”
Me:
“So, do you want to do something like that, or do you want to build cars, or do
you want to build planes, or do you want to build boats?”
Troy:
“If I build it for Doc Ock, Doc Ock might get…”
Me:
“Well, you don’t have to build it for the bad guys. You can build it for the
good guys. All I’m says is that if you’re an engineer, you build a lot of
different things. So, what do you want to build?”
Troy:
“I would like to build my robot.”
Me:
“You want to build a robot. And what do you want that robot to do?”
Troy:
“To kill bad guys.”
Me:
“Kill bad guys!? You don’t want the robot to do something like program
computers, or save people’s lives, or diagnose medical conditions, or anything
like that? You just want him to kill bad guys?”
Troy:
“Hmmm. Right now, he’s going to be busy with bad guys.”
Me:
“That’s it? And when he’s killed all the bad guys, then what?”
Troy:
“He can help everybody.”
Me:
“He can help the people that are left?”
Troy: “Mmmm, hmmm.”
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