Butt Dust
What Is Butt Dust??
What, you ask, is 'Butt Dust'? What do you do or say when an innocent
child asks you something so innocent and they are so serious?
JACK (age 3) was watching his mum breast-feeding his new baby sister.
After a while he asked: 'Mum, why have you got two? Is one for hot and
one for cold milk?'
MELANIE (age 5) asked her granny how old she was. Granny replied she
was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, 'If you don't
remember, you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to
six.'
STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his mum good night. 'I love you so
much that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom
window.'
BRITTANY (age 4) had an ear ache and wanted a pain killer. She tried
in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her
mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for
her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: 'How does it know
it's me?'
SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. 'Please
don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'it makes my teeth cough.'
DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: 'How much do I cost?'
CLINTON (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried when his mother asked
what was troubling him. He replied, 'I don't know what'll happen with
this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in it?'
MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple who was hugging and
kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked
his dad: 'Why is he whispering in her mouth?'
TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather
wrinkled, woman her mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a while and then
asked, 'Why doesn't your skin fit your face?'
JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man
named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his
wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked:
'What happened to the flea?'
The sermon I think this mother will never forget…
'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and
a rapturous look on his upturned face, 'without You, we are but dust....'
He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter
who was listening intently leaned over to me and asked quite audibly
in her shrill, little four-year-old girl, voice, 'Mum, what is butt
dust?'