Career choices for Mason

We're riding home from school yesterday, and Mason says, "Mom? What's sticky but also edible?" I'm not sure how to answer this, so I ask for more information. With further questioning, I discover that he wants to build little people out of food, preferably candy. We decide that Laffy Taffy would be an appropriate medium. "Mom?" "Yes, Mason?" "When I grow up, and I'm working in a toothpaste factory, screwing the caps onto toothpaste tubes, if there are caps that don't screw on right, I'm going to save them." "And what will you do with them?" "Put them in my pocket. And give them to my son to make things with. And three tubes of toothpaste to use as glue."

"AND I'm going to invent a forklift that can lift ten things at once and one of those trucks that lifts men up to work on the telephone wires. I can make one that works better. I'm going to tell my workers at my invention company."

There you have it.

10:00 p.m. Kathleen just arrived home from a football game. She informed me that the whole "working in the factory screwing caps on tubes" is from a movie: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The Johnny Depp one. She tells me Mason is not as clever as I think. She is collecting her informant fees in the form of my Halloween candy. She says Smarties are her anti-drug, and if I want her to stay drug-free I should buy Smarties all the time.