Our responses to, “Would you rather live in a gingerbread house with the candy decorations or a house made of LEGO?”
Jacob: LEGO because I like changing things and reconfiguring the house would be that much more fun.*
Marcia the Elder: I guess we should get a LEGO house. It would be more structurally sound than a gingerbread house. Can you imagine that first wind and rainstorm. It would be one big soggy, sticky mess. My family seems to want to change the house a lot…. Wait until they see that I may or may not have used Kragle on the LEGO house.
Marcia the Younger: Probably LEGO because then I wouldn’t be tempted to eat my house. Also, there are smooth pieces of LEGO to smooth over the floor.**
Hinckley: LEGO because if we lived in a gingerbread house we’d be really tempted to eat our house, and them we would have no home to live in. Also, because we could take our house apart if it was a LEGO house and put it back together and transform our whole house.
Corban: The reason I want a LEGO house is because I want the floor to be flat with no studs. That’s why I want to live in a house made of LEGO with you.
*Mar©ia pointed out that it would be easier to fix the gutters because you can just make stairs to reach the gutters.
**As often as she asks to rearrange her room, I am surprised that she didn’t mention this in her reply.
Category: Would You Rather
Tonight at Supper
I said I had a question and that I wanted everyone to answer.
Hinckley said he knew what I was going to ask, “Are all the chores done?”
I told him that while that is a good question, what I wanted to know was:
Would you rather be a centaur or a mermaid/merman?
Jacob: Somebody told me that centaurs are all boys, so, I want to be a merman because I want to be where there are girls too, and not only smelly horse boys, and I don’t want to have to carry a baby (and give birth).
Marcia the Elder: I would rather be a centaur because I know there’d have to be girls too, and I am not a swimmer, and there are holes in my eardrum, so, I think merlife would not be right for me.
Marcia the Younger: I would rather be a mermaid because centaurs are always boys.
Hinckley: I would rather be a centaur because it would be cool to gallop as fast as a horse.
Corban: After much refusal to cooperate and asking him the question each time he said something that was not the answer, here is how he eventually responded:
Seahorses can’t swim.*
I don’t want to be a mermaid because I don’t want to be in water.
I don’t want to be a centaur because I don’t want to go as fast as a horse.**
I would rather PLAY WITH a centaur that’s alive because I would play Hide and Seek, and I would always want to be first to seek.
* This was after talk about part fish and part horse.
**Hinckley tried to tell him he could choose to not go as fast.