Jeni and the kids quite often pick me up from work at the Metro station. They also occasionally drop me off there, always so I can "go to work".
Also, several months ago, Jeni brought the kids down to the Pentagon on the Metro, just to have lunch with me. You can do that, a badged Pentagon employee (me) just has to sign them in and escort them. Well, if you've ever been to the Pentagon on the Metro, you know that the train stops right under the Metro bus stop and you just walk out of the Metro station into the Pentagon entrance facility. Little eyes and little minds might not perceive that they'd ever left the Metro system.
That evening, I was talking to Joseph about his day and coming to see me. I asked him, "Where does Daddy work." He said, "The train station!" I asked him what Daddy does at work. He thought for a moment and said, "Rides the train". I guess you can't argue with his three year old logic.
Today, Jeni had a doctor's appointment and we couldn't get a baby sitter, so I stayed home this morning with the kids. However, I needed to take a conference call, so I told the kids that I had a very important call with work and they needed to be very quiet and watch the TV show I put on for them.
I sat on the couch with my Blackberry on speaker and as you could have guessed, Joseph came in and climbed up next to me. He pointed at the Blackberry and said, "Daddy's what's that?" I told him I was on my important phone call with work. He said, "With the train station?!" Trying to get on with my call, I said, "Yes, go watch your show." He didn't. Just then, a person started talking on the call. Joseph's eyes got as big as saucers and with much awe and wonderment he said, "Is that the train (unintelligible)!!??" I just said yes, go back to your show, I need to talk to the train station. At last, he did and I had my call.
You can't argue with his logic.
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