In the car on the way to trumpet lessons:
Katie: Mom, do stick shift cars even have a steering wheel?
Me: (Laughing hysterically) Um yeeeesssssss!!!
(MORE and MORE LAUGHING!!!!!!!)
Katie: Well, I hear kids talking about how hard it is to drive a stick shift so I thought that the car was controlled with just a joystick instead of a steering wheel.
(MORE UNCONTROLLABLE LAUGHTER!!!!!)
Katie: So do they make certain cars in stick and non-stick?
I lost it. (Tears rolling down my cheeks.)
On the way home from the lesson I tried to explain to her what a stick shift was and then:
Katie: So it controls the knees?
Me: The what?
Katie: it makes it go from one neeee to the other neeeeee? (Think car sound effects)
That was it. I almost had to pull over to avoid hitting something while I was driving.
Overheard at the Craighead House 