Tonight I was half-heartedly playing with The Mermaids and trying to eat a nutritious dinner of corn chex.
The Mermaids are always interested in “stealing” a bite or two using the baby bird method*.
Tonight they helped me clean out three bowls and the last one had a little extra milk(soy) when the baby-birding began in earnest.
I couldn’t keep up with the little tweets and they were so demanding I paused and said,
What do I look like…?
I wasn’t able to come up with anything so Emma smartly filled the space;
You look like a man without a horse.
I have no inkling where that came from but as it turns out…she is so right.
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*They just walk up casually and open their mouths usually with an added “ahhhh”.
blief 
Man without a horse indeed! Gotta love that girl!
Phil. 101 here she comes.
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” … no inkling where that came from but as it turns out…she is so right”
By ” … she is so right“, do you mean to imply that you lost your bike?
In any case, I gotta agree with “Mom”; another Philosopher in the fold — EGADS!! Help!!
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She masterfully illustrates a rhetorical device: stating an obvious but somewhat random truth sounds profound, and makes the speaker appear wise beyond her years.
Here, I’ll try one:
It is better to walk without shoes than to fly without wings.
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