Taxis to Airplanes · Jan 16, 13:18

This is a conversation Champe and I had this morning. It’s pretty typical of our conversations, so I thought I’d record one for posterity.

Scene: Sitting in the parking lot at Providence Rec center waiting for Todd and Caden. After swimming class.

Champe: What’s that police-y looking car doing?
Me: You mean the yellow car?
Champe: Yes
Me: That’s a taxi cab. Remember you rode in one in New York.
Champe: What’s a taxi cab.
Me: They pick you up and drive you places and you pay them money. They are more common in big cities like NY. DC has them, but not as many as NY, because there lots of people don’t even have a car and it’s too crowded. And some places don’t have hardly any taxis
Champe: Tell me a place that doesn’t have hardly any taxis.
Me: Wyoming
Champe: Tell me another place.
Me: a small town in Mississippi
Champe: Tell me another place.
Me: West Virginia.
Champe: Tell me another place.
Me: Africa. Well South Africa would, but lots of countries wouldn’t have any.
Champe: Yeah ‘cause they just have penguins and polar bears there.
Me: You’re thinking of Antarctica, not Africa. And yes, Antarctica is one place where there are no taxis at all.
Champe: Yeah cause they don’t have trains or cars or people or anything there. They don’t have snow or dirt.
Me: They have snow. That’s the one thing they have.
Champe: What about dirt?
Me: (trying to remember 8th grade Earth Science) Ummm, I’m not exactly sure if there is dirt or not under the ice and snow.
Champe: Well you should go there and dig a hole to see.
Me: I don’t like the cold that much, I don’t want to go.
Champe: Well what if you wore 2 snowsuits, 50 gloves, 60 hats, and one hundred thousand socks and one pair of boots.
Me:Yeah it’s not really worth it to me to do that. I’d rather someone else go to Antarctica to see if there is dirt.
Champe: OK, I’ll go, but I need to take a grown up with me.
Champe: To watch me.
Champe: Um, but what about polar bears? Are they nice or mean?
Me: I don’t know; I’ve never met one.
Champe: Well, we’ll see. If the polar bears are bad, we have to run away fast. We better keep an airplane right there that we can jump into if the polar bears are bad.
Champe: And I’ll bring a cup with me, in case I am able to dig up some dirt.

— LCM

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