This past Saturday evening I decided to run and fill the fuel tank in the Jeep because it was basically empty and I didn’t really want to have to worry about doing it Monday morning on my way to work.  It was getting late-ish, but we had just arrived home from dinner at the neighbors and the girls were anything but tired so they decided to come with me.  We drove down to the nearest Maverik and I hopped out to start the pump.  I got things started and then jumped back in the jeep because it was rather chilly and I’m a cold wuss.  As we sat in the Jeep waiting for the tank to fill Mallory very seriously asked me if gas came from trees.  I was a tad confused about how she would have come to that conclusion until I looked over and noticed the Maverik sign…  

Mallory had obviously deduced that gas came from trees because there were trees on the sign.  I chuckled to myself and then tried to think of the easiest way to explain where gas comes from without getting into an incredibly long and frustrating conversation with a 4 year old.  I decided to oversimplify a bit and said “well…  gas comes from petroleum that comes out of the ground and petroleum is made from dead dinosaurs.”  There was a little bit of discussion about how dinosaurs could turn into oil, but once the girls were satisfied with my explanation, Hailey’s mad deductive reasoning skills kicked in and she made the following observation…

“So that means when we jump over the oil spots on the garage floor, we’re really jumping over dinosaurs.”

Hard to argue with that.

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