If I only could have kept a straight face...

9yo K: Mommy, did you have to put avocado in the salad?

Me: Sometimes I don't do things because I have to; I do them because I want to.

K: Mommy, did you want to put avocado in the salad?

Me: Yes.


Pause.


K: Mommy, did you have to want to put avocado in the salad?


...I wonder how far it might have gone?