Overheard at the Pet Store

CHILD: So you don't want a hamster.

FATHER: No I don't.

CHILD: Have you ever thought that a hamster might save your life?

I'd like to say that -- when pressed -- the child told an imaginative and brilliant story about a life-saving hamster, but instead he totally choked and couldn't provide any rationale for his statement.

But he was only about five years old and the statement was brilliant. The rationale will come.