Chickens and eggs.....

The kids have gone back to school and a new year and new term brings with it the same old problems…..bad language and misunderstandings…..

Son #2 came home, picked up and apple to eat and then started sniggering – the apple had the label Cox on it…..

“Mummy, why do people at school say that cox is a willy?”

*Sigh* Here we go again….the conversation went a little like this:-

OK…you know how the boy chickens are called cockerels or cocks?

Right, well some people say that because the cockerels jump on the hens so much –

yes, you’ve seen them doing it all the time,

and yes that’s right they’re putting their willy,

no you can’t see it, it’s covered up by all their feathers,

yes, it goes in where the hen drops out the eggs.

Right, so going back to the apple (which is a Cox, not a cock)

some people call willies cocks because,

No, not because it goes into chickens [Oh dear god!],

but because it’s what men use to give ladies babies.

Yes it is a bit like the chickens,

Yes, there is an egg

No, the egg doesn’t get laid in a nest box

Yes, that’s right it grows in ladies tummies.

Why does the cockerel do it?

*Interuption from son #1 – Because the hen wants to have chicks just like the ladies want to have babies

Um….*thinks….how much of the truth should I drop in here?*

I’m not sure about the chickens but grown ups don’t always do it just for having babies…

*Son #1 – No, you and Daddy do it because you like it – you said so and Daddy went red, Hahahahahaha

*Son #2 – I don’t want this apple