cerastes:

When I was a kid, I asked an uncle one time, “Hey, are dragons real?”

And my uncle, and I mean uncle UNCLE, grown ass man in his 50s, looked at me and said: “Well, see, eels exist, and they are capable of releasing electric discharges, right? If a fish that can release electricity exists, then it doesn’t really boggle my mind to think that a reptile that can breathe fire can exist, too.”

And it just fucking home run me out of my mind, man! I was just

The logic was sound! He didn’t oversell it or undersell it, he straight up went at me with something logical and yet easily comprehensible enough that my kiddy brain simply concluded that it was airtight logic and that dragons existed. It was one of the top ten uncle moves of all times. Mission complete: The kid was happy as hell and satisfied with the answer.

That answer has always stuck with me when I have to engage with children for this or that reason, I mean, that’s the ideal: You’re not overdoing it, you’re applying very reasonable and simple logic that checks out, and you’re answering the question. I thank this uncle for indulging me in this manner when he could’ve just hit me with a “yeah” and gone back to his newspaper.