"You Know Something I Don't, Kiddo?" Dept

I walked up to one of my daughter's 9-year-old friends on Mother's Day morning at our church, as the young lady stood holding roses to pass out to the moms. Now no young lady is ever too young (or too old, for that matter) for me to tease her; so I assumed an air of mock outrage and said, "What, Danielle, you're not going to give ME a flower?"

She looked me straight in the eye and said with deep seriousness, "No, Mr. Pierce, you're not a mother yet."

The Peril