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Now Cover Your Eyes While I Disintegrate That Nice Waitress

Little boy: But how do I know you’re not part of the Martian menace?
Dad, deadpan: You don’t.

–110th & Amsterdam

Overheard by: Alexandra

  • Posted on June 25, 2017
  • Boys, Dads, Default, Fears, Kids, Questions, Threats, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center
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