(cast of characters: Brittany - my foster daughter 5yrs old, me - me 7x older than Brittany)
Brittany: hey dad come play this game wif me! (wif is Bert speak for the english word with) ((Bert is my term of endurement... endearment for Brittany))
Me: what game baby? (I call almost everyone baby. not really sure why...)
Bert: It's a word game
Me: ...
Bert: (drawing lines...) here, I put these lines and you guess the letters...
Me: ok. what do call this game?
Bert: I don't know
Me: well, when I was a kid we called it hangman (feeling quite sure that the PC police would surely have renamed it).
Bert: YEAH THAT'S WHAT'S IT'S CALLED!! (not typos, representations of her actual words)
Me: (smiling)
Bert: you guess first daddy, it's a color...
In six guesses my superior intellect realized that a 4 letter word with "u" as the third letter must be blue...
My first word was triskaidekaphobia.
...I might be the best hangman player in the world...
ever.
