I am sure this has happened with you. You meet a mother strutting about proudly with her well behaved child. You ask her, 'How old is he?' And she says, 'Five complete, six running'.
I, for one, have never been able to grasp this 'running' concept. Who is running and to where? Why not just offer up 'He's five years old.' Why do we need to educate people that the next milestone in the child's life is turning six?
Does the child have an option really? I mean, can he just skip turning six and get on with being seven already? In which case, I can understand the second bit of the puzzle. He's five today, but come his next birthday, he's gets to be seven because he earned a 'too cool be be six' badge. Then it would be, 'Five complete, seven running'.
Imagine the other end of the spectrum
The little foetus. The poor little child has to say, 'Zero complete, one running' for 21 months! Imagine all the running the little feet must do!
Save the foetus. Stop the running.
1 comment:
Hahaha. Funny post. Also, to be accurate, you'll have to say
1 yr old. 2yrs crawling
2 yrs old. 3 yrs walking
3yrs old... you get the picture!
Smitha
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