Broccoli and Burritos
Thursdays nights are for swim lessons. I teach for fun at the local YMCA. Sometimes though, like tonight, I’m the one who’s taught — or reminded of — the important lessons of life.
Mateo is my four-year-old energetic curly-haired student. We were practicing our kicking by “racing” each other across the pool. I was letting him win, because, well… it’s kinda mean to beat a pre-schooler. As I was feigning defeat, the conversation went like this:
Me: “How are you going so fast?”
Mateo: “Because I ate my vegetables today”
Me: “Oh? What type of vegetables did you eat?”
Mateo : ” Broccoli!!”
Me: “Oh! Do you like broccoli?”
Mateo: “Yes. I had it for lunch. What did you eat for lunch?”
Me: “I had a burrito”
Mateo (matter-of-factly): “Burritos aren’t very healthy. You’d swim faster if you ate broccoli.”
Alas. There’s nothing like a four-year-old telling you the brutal honest truth. But what can I say? He’s right. After all, Robert Fulgham did say that all I need to know I learned in kindergarten.
Posted on January 14th, 2010 by Ryan
Filed under: diary worthy
The burrito axiom states the taste of a burrito is conversely related to the number of vegetables included in the burrito itself, excluding contents in the salsa and/or hot sauce and/or pickled items on the side.
You should of beat the kid in the race - it would have made him hungrier and work harder. It’s what the Spartans and Mongolians would have done.
However, I don’t think the Spartans and Mongolians were expert swimmers. So, what do I know? Haar.
Finally, I applaud you on eating the whole burrito! Sigh, I only eat 1/2 burritos at a time or make my own again, nowadays. Sigh. The good old days of whole burrito eating and no consequences.