Boys About Girls

Vacations are fun and exciting, but what I really love are the conversations that happen after spending countless hours together. One such conversation happened during a game of Battle of the Sexes on our last night in Mexico. The girls drew a card and asked the boys the question written on it: How does a girl stop a run in her pantyhose? The boys discussed this question at length and came up with many possible solutions including: cutting the legs off and having pantyshorts, using a blowtorch to melt the fibers together, and covering the spot with duct tape.

"No," I told them, "the correct answer is to paint clear nail polish around the area."
"What?" Drake yelled. "That is ridiculous!"
I smiled thinking he was surprised that it was a good idea to purposefully put nail polish on clothing.
"That's crazy," he continued. "Who in the world would have such a thing as clear nail polish?"
"Yeah," Josiah agreed. "Whats the purpose of clear nail polish?"
"It would be for people who just like the feeling of paining their nails but don't want them to actually look any different," Drake laughed.
"Yeah," Josiah added, "they would sit and paint their nails and then show all their friends how they looked exactly the same as before they started."
"Look!" Drake mimicked in a girly voice, "I just spent the afternoon painting my nails and you can't even tell because the polish is CLEAR!"
"What a waste!" Josiah agreed. "Nobody would do that!"

And I have to admit, their logic was actually pretty solid.