My son pointing at a stone on my driveway said in his developing vocabulary, proudly "stone".

"Well done Simon, that is a special stone, called a pebble"

"Pebl"

"Well done, and what's its name?"

"Eric"

Eric has been the name of many inanimate objects since.

I've told this story before but many years ago when the world was still innocent and I still *ugh* shaved I stepped out of the shower one morning, dried off, and without dressing stood at the basin to shave.

One of the toddlers walked in, looked up, grabbed, tugged, and said, "Toot! Toot!"

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A nice tall icy glass of Otis Campbell's shine.