I forgot about this one, from April or so. My memory was jogged by another conversation.
The Scene: the emergency room waiting area at a local hospital. During little league play, my son, 7, decided he needed to ask the coach something so he got up to go ask. He passed by the on-deck circle at just the wrong time and got clocked beside his right eye with a bat. It was immediately apparent that he would need stitches, so we got a bandage on him from the first aid kit and I drove him over to the hospital.
By this time he had calmed down and I was doing my best to keep him from freaking out at the thought of stitches ("They're gonna sew my skin?????")
"Dad, did you ever get hit with a baseball bat?"
"No, never did."
"Get hit with a ball?"
"No, I didn't, I didn't play baseball."
"Oh. <pause> Had they not invented baseball when you were a boy?"
At this point all the other folks in the waiting room were enjoying this quite a bit as I provided the boy with some much-needed historical context.
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