Overheard
Jaeger: Ow! I hurt myself!
Hans: Good thing you are tough.
Jaeger: Yeah. I am tough (said in his biggest, gruffest voice)
…..
Hans: Jaeger, are you tough?
Jaeger, no longer suffering: No.
Hans: No, I don’t mean ARE you tough, I mean AM you tough?
Jaeger: Yeah. But sometimes I say “ow” when I am hurt.
Hans: I am tough, too, so I don’t say anything when I am hurt. If I am going to say “ow” I just lick it right off my lips.
Jaeger: Oh. Well, sometimes I say “ow.”
And, reader, do not listen to the elder one; he is telling a pleasant fiction.
