Kids are funny

One of my favorite parts of my job is having conversations with kids. They say the funniest stuff without even realizing it.

Wednesday I was eating lunch in the cafeteria with my class and we were all enjoying our chicken nuggets. I think every single one of my students bought lunch that day. Here are a couple conversations I had at the lunch table:

Me: (speaking to the boy on my left) I need to remember to bring my lunch tomorrow! We are going to have fish sticks. (I do not enjoy the fish sticks, from my own oven or anyone elses).

Boy: Me too! I only like regular fish, the kind without the sticks.

So, I'm not sure what kind of fish sticks he's been eating, but I don't remember the fish sticks I ate as a child actually having sticks in them.


Just a few moments later I had this conversation with the girl sitting on my right:

Girl: Can you write with your left hand?

Me: Sort of. I mean, I can do it, it just doesn't look very good.

Girl: I can write with both hands. I've been practicing a lot with my left hand. I just feel it's important to be able to write with my left hand because you never know when your right hand will stop working.

Me: That's a really good point. Way to be prepared!

She said it as if your hands have some sort of writing limit, once you reach it, that hand is no longer of any use to you. As long as I can read her work, I don't care which hand she uses, but I wonder what she'll do if both her hands reach their limit?