Jonathan (at the grocery store): ooooh, can we pleeeeaaaase get some brown paper bags for my lunches? I've always wanted to carry my lunch in a real brown paper bag, just like the American kids on t.v.

me: really? (not surpressing some giggles) you know, it wasn't really cool to have a brown paper bag for lunch when I was a kid. You had to have cool lunch boxes.

Jonathan: we had lunch boxes - I just always wanted a real brown paper bag lunch. can we, please?!!?

Jodi: yeah, sure.

Jonathan: and can you write my name on it? ... in big letters?...with a black marker?

Jodi: absolutely

(the next morning, after I have completed said lunch and placed it in the brown paper bag, with his name in appropriately big letters on it and placed it on the counter - we are about to leave)

Jonathan: (in a giddy voice - like he's reading a script) oooh, I better not forget my lunch. oh, which one could it be? oh here it is, with my name on it. my very own lunch with my name on it. etc. etc. etc.

I gotta say, that $1.50 was just about the best deal I've ever gotten...I would have paid significantly more for the same reaction.