Like a rope

A few days ago, I was supervising The Girl taking her bath. After she got out of the bathtub, she twisted her long hair into a giant strand.

Me: "Hey, your hair is like a big rope."

Girl: "My hair not a rope, Daddy -- it HAIR!"

Me: "No, no... I'm not saying your hair IS rope: it's a simile."

Girl: "It not a sim-lee -- it HAIR!!!"


Umm -- o.k., yeah. We'll try this conversation again in a few years.


--Gye Greene