We seem to have the strangest dinner conversations!  Here's an example from tonights meal:
Out of the blue comes the question "If someone offered you $1,000 would you eat a billion peas?"  This question was posed by Joseph who as you can tell is the deep thinker of the family. 
Everyone proceeded comment on how it would depend on how long you had to eat them, or whether or not $1,000 was enough money, etc.  Joseph said it would be worth it to him.  He was the only one!   No suprise there.
Daddy told him he would end up like the blue girl in Willy Wonka - only he'd be green.
That led to a conversation about the movie Willy Wonka.  Whether the older one was better than the newer one, and how those midgit guys pretty much gave everyone nightmares.
That led to Joseph's next question which was "My worst nightmare is crashing on a plane in the desert and the only cargo onboard is peanut butter - what's yours?"  (I think he must have been pondering that one for a while!) 
So we all shared our worst nightmares which ranged from being charged by a bull to being lost at sea with sharks all around. 
This led to a conversation about my fear of the ocean and how I, if lost at sea, would want to die not because of the sharks but because of the fish poop that I KNOW is floating all around me.  (They tried to convince me that the ocean filters itself and all that jazz but I explained that while the ocean IS it's own filter, that that filtering takes some time, and right at that moment when I am stranded at sea I KNOW some fish are pooping RIGHT THEN and it hasn't been filtered yet!)  Then they reassured me that a lifeguard would save me before I died.
That led to talking about lifeguards and how important their job is and if it so important why do they hire 15 year olds and pay them $5.00 an hour? 
Then we began talking about lifeguards at pools and some of the ridiculous politically correct pool rules they seem to have such as "no splashing"! 
Then I began to wonder how we ever got to talking about pools anyway!  How did we get here!?  Tracing our conversation back it all seemed so random.  And to think all that fun at dinner time started with "If someone offered you $1,000 would you eat a billion peas?"