If You Want to Know What It's Like Driving Home in Our Car . . .

WARNING: this post MAY and WILL contain “potty talk”—so if that offends you, then I really don’t know what to say)
Ruby: eeeeewwwww. Why do I smell onions?

Me: actually, its not onions sweety, it’s the sewage plant. (this is about the 17th time Ruby has mentioned the odor while driving this particular section of the freeway. I don’t know why I decided to answer her tonight, but I did--- and it went a little something like this)

Ruby: what’s the sewage plant?

Me: well, when you flush the toilet, all the poop goes down the tubes and into big pipes called the sewer. Then it goes into a big lake called the sewage plant.

Eden and Ruby: yuck/sick/GROSS!

Eden: but we don’t swim in that lake right?

Ruby: Oh, there’s a poop lake by the park, right?

Me: no—its over there. That’s why you always say that it’s stinky when we drive on the freeway here.

Eden: what do they do with all the poop?

Me: They put a bunch of chemicals that squish up and clean up the poop

Ruby: but with big gloves right?

Me: No, a big machine does it--then I think they put it into a river ????

Eden and Ruby: Gross/DISGUSTING!

Jay: bee-teee (binky)

Eden: uh, but we don’t drink that, right?

Me: uhhh. No? I hope not. (I actually don’t knowif they recycle the secondary water—do you know?)

Ruby: where’s the pee lake?

Eden: they both go in the same place, Ruby. But mom, no people go on the sewer right?

Me: Right. Nobody goes in the sewer

Eden: just the Ninja turtles and Splinter and Shredder—and what’s that girl’s name again?

Me: Is it April? (I tried to recall my knowledge of TMNT back when Vanilla Ice did the soundtrack for the movie—you remember, admit it! BTW, when did Eden watch Ninja Turtles, and how does she remember the details?)

Eden: yeah—I think so.

Ruby: boy's parts are called wee-wees, right?

Eden: wee-NEEs, Ruby, wee-NEEs

Me: (pulling the car into the garage) Okay, time for bed.