Seven Year Old Logic

What I am about to tell you is between us, seriously. If you know Jimbo, ever meet Jimbo, or come to know anyone that knows Jimbo, please keep this to yourself.


My son was standing up straight and singing a song I couldn't quite understand. He was very serious. When I started to walk out of the room he said,

"I'm clenching my butt for Jesus."

That is what my innocent sweet boy told me. He said this with the most sincere straight face, although I was having a hard time keeping one.

"What did you say?", I asked as I pivoted backward, looking at him with my head cocked.

"I'm clenching my butt for Jesus".

Honestly I just wanted to hear him say it again. I couldn't believe my ears. He said this while standing ramrod straight and looking me in the eye. Thus forcing me to look back and not spit out my coffee.

Now I am wondering, at what age did I become a smart ass. Surely it was before seven. But he seemed so sincere. Is he being a smart ass? He has such a angel face.

"What do you mean", I finally asked him, after gazing off in space for a moment, lost in my own thoughts and doubts of parental failure.

"I'm standing up straight, like I did at the Christmas show".

"OK... But what does you butt and Jesus have to do with anything?" I asked him, now really curious.

"You know, at our Christmas show, when everyone was looking at me and I had to sing, even though I didn't want to".

"Yes"

"Well I clenched my butt to stand up straight and it's a Christmas show, so it's for Jesus, because Christmas is for Jesus".

"OK, I get it. You are standing up straight, like you did at the Christmas Pageant. And in order to stand up straight, you kind of have to clench your butt. Do I have that right?"

"Yes, what is so hard to understand about that?"

Now this is where I know he is defintely a smart ass by age seven.

I don't know. What is so hard about that?