Leta (pretending to apply blush to her own face while I apply mascara to my eyelashes): “You wear make-up because you’re a girl. I wear make-up because I’m a girl. Only girls wear make-up.”
Me: “Not necessarily. Some boys wear make-up, too.”
Leta: “WHAT?! Boys do NOT wear make-up!”
Me: “Some boys do. And it’s okay if they do.”
Leta: “But if boys wear make-up they would get dizzy.”
Me: “They would get dizzy? What?”
Leta: “They would get dizzy and fall down.”
Me: “What on earth are you talking about?”
Leta: “Papaw wears make-up, and he gets dizzy.”
Me: “You saw Papaw wearing make-up?”
Leta: “Yep, I did.”
Me: “Papaw, The Most Conservative Person On The Planet?”
Leta: “And he fell over.”
Me: “Obviously, because the only way Papaw would be seen wearing make-up was if someone hit him in the head with a blunt object and then applied it to his face while he lay on the ground unconscious.”
Leta: “I thought he looked cute.”
