Me: “I like the black paint job on this car in front of us. It’s a matte finish instead of being all shiny. It looks cool.”
Troy: “Oh, they go to my school! See the stocker on the back window?”
Me: “Yeah. I wonder if they’ll go down the main drive or the drive behind the church like we go. What do you think?”
Troy: “Um, both.”
Me [laughing]: “They can’t go down both. It’s either one or the other.”
Troy: “Then, the same as us.”
Me: “I think it’ll be the main drive.”
Troy: “I still think it’ll be both, but you made me choose.”
Me: “Okay, tell me. How can it be both?”
Troy: “Well, the car could get sawed in half. Then, one half could go down one road and the other half down the other.”
Me: “What, you think there’s some giant saw that comes out of the road and cuts cars in two?!”
Troy: “Maybe.”
Me: “Let’s assume for a second that that’s true. The front half’s bum would be dragging on the ground, and the back half would just stop because it wouldn’t have an engine!”
Troy: “Sure it would. It would just have half an engine.”
Me: “Oh, you’re saying that it would get cut front to back not side to side. Okay, but then what’s to keep each half from just falling over? I mean, it’ll only have two wheels.”
Troy: “If it gets going fast enough it’ll be fine. Like a motorcycle.”
Me: “Fair enough. But then who will be driving the side on the right? There’s only one steering wheel!”
Troy: “I don’t know. There’s a kid in the car, right?”
Me: “But for all we know, that kid is four years old. Are you suggesting that a kid in a car seat that can’t even reach the pedals and that doesn’t even know how to drive will be able to navigate half of a motorcycle car on their own?!”
Troy [giggling]: “Maybe.”
Me: “All right then. I’m putting my money on the main drive, and you’re putting your money on a giant saw cutting the car in half and it going down both ways. I guess we’ll see which of us is right.”
Troy: “I hope it’s me.”
Me: “Me too.”
