"What brand of tuna do you like?"

[no_hypocrisy]

I was a substitute teacher for two fifth grade classes today.

At the end of class of the first fifth grade, a boy came up to me and asked me the above question. I answered that I haven't done a comparison test and didn't know.

And I didn't think it a second thought because this class had been working on a computer research project involving food and marketing.

Then at the end of the second fifth grade class, another boy asked me the exact question I was given an hour before. And this class was not studying food today.

I actually remarked out loud, "That's strange, you're the second person to ask me that question today. What's going on?"

I took a beat and realized this is how kids that age are telling you that you've got catfood breath and to deal with it, in the original euphemistic way an 11 year old can tell you. I didn't get mad. I dealt with the hallitosis and was grateful.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "Catfood breath"! LOL!

Actually, I don't know what kind of tuna I like. That's because although I buy canned tuna often, I rarely get to eat it because when I run out of cat food I have to feed the tuna to the cats unless I want to (a) go to the store late at night or (b) listen to a lot of howling. So the cats end up with tuna breath and I never get to eat any myself.