A Veteran Delicacy

My son and my Chris went to a Veteran's Day Parade meeting to help organize the event. Basically, they were all going over how the day should go, what to do, what to setup, etc. One of the organizers spoke about having miniature horses in the parade, but for some reason my husband couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that there are smaller versions of horses. So he kept calling them donkeys. I guess the other organizers were being nice, because no one called him out on it. So the entire beginning portion of the meeting revolved around the problems of having "donkeys" stroll down Broadway. My Chris suggested that my Kade be in charge of any uh... land mines that happened to fall from the ... "donkeys". Heh. Kade was not too happy about that.

Later in the meeting, they changed direction, trying to organize refreshments for all those involved in the parade. My Chris spoke up again and jokingly said, "Well, if we run out of food, we can always eat the donkeys."

And my brilliant Kade, not to be outdone, also spoke up, "Yeah, and if we run out of those, we can always eat the Democrats." **

The entire room went silent, before eruptions of laughter spewed forth at the absurdity. I've always said you can dress those two up, but you can't take them anywhere.

** (Nothing against Democrats at all. My son equates donkeys with Democrats. The joke would have been entirely different had they been speaking of elephants.)