Even more questions and the single mom

So, I made a joke a few entries ago about how I was going to turn my blog into an ongoing record of the bizarre and puzzling questions my son asks me.  I really did intend for that to be just a joke, but it seems that all the good material I get these days really is about his endless questions.  I swear, the next time something interesting other than a question comes up, you'll be the first to know.

In the meantime, enjoy this gem from the other day...

We're sitting in Zaxby's having a quick little meal before running some after-Christmas errands.  Across the way is what appears to be a young couple.  I wasn't really paying attention, but at quick glance said maybe late teens, early 20s.

My son looked over at them for a minute or two and then turned to me and asked, "When you're a grown man and you have a girlfriend and you don't like her in a few days, you can't just get a new one, right, because then you'll have two?"

I want you to take a minute and ponder the many levels of that question. ...I'll wait...

...grown man...

...don't like her IN A FEW DAYS...

...then you'll have two...

First, I'd like to applaud my son for an early recognition of the virtues of faithfulness and monogamy.

Second, though, I'd like to see a doctor to have the bits of half-chewed chicken fingers that tried to come out of my nose when I heard that question extracted from my sinuses.

Typically when I relate these queries of my son's, I often go on to describe how I responded, or at least how I tried to respond.  I won't subject you to that on this one because my answer was surely so incoherent and meaningless as to be, well, incoherent and meaningless, and somewhat anticlimactic for this blog.  Suffice it to say, the answer involved trying to explain the concept of "breaking up" to a 5 year old.  That went about as well as you can imagine.