We're reading Summer of the Monkeys as our current read-aloud.   So last night we got to a part where the main character and his grandpa are taking a buggy on a 12-mile journey into the town to visit a library (for the 1st time in BOTH their lives).  They decide at the last minute to bring the hounddog along.

So at one point the dog sees some raccoons and decides he has to jump off the buckboard and chase them.

Gameboy:  That dog's gonna get killed jumping out of the car like that!

The rest of us:  It's not a car...it's a buckboard.  Like a wagon pulled by horses.

Gameboy:  No motor?

Me:  No, honey.  It's the late 1800's.  There are no cars, no airplanes, no TVs, no electricity.

Gameboy:  No air-conditioning?

Me:  No air-conditioning.

He's trying to wrap his brain around such incivility.  Then he turns on the "wise guy."

Gameboy (to me):  Did they have air-conditioning when you were a girl?  *Smirk*

Me:  Yes.  I was not born in the 1800's, you little....(redacted)

So later in the story they get to the library and they leave the dog out on the front steps while they go in.

Gameboy:  What if the dog decides to go in and he gets caught in the automatic doors?

The rest of us:  THERE ARE NO AUTOMATIC DOORS!  The library had its doors open because they HAD NO AIR CONDITIONING....because it's 1880!

Pause.

Is this what he thinks my life was like when I was a kid?

I will now raise a toast (coffee, of course) to my beloved Dyson!   Cheers!