My wife was working today and it was a beautiful day outside so I convinced the kids to take their old dad for a walk to the lake.

Along the trail by the lake there is a nice boardwalk with a small pier you can walk out on and sit and enjoy the beautiful scenery. We stopped on the pier and sat down for awhile.

While sitting down my daughter notices a number of things carved into the wooden decking of the pier. She asks her brother "what is this heart with two letters and a plus sign?"

My son says "that means those people are in a relationship. Like boyfriend and girlfriend."

I further explained that usually the boy in a relationship carves, or with permanent marker writes, the first letter of his name and the first letter of his girlfriend's name inside of a heart as a gesture to show he likes her and she likes him.

My daughter was fascinated by this and started looking for other hearts besides the first one. She says "there is one here, and one over here". I said "it is a common thing for people to do."

She is still looking "one over here and one here too". Then she stops, ponders for a second and blurts out "WOW, she likes a lot of guys".

My son and I burst out laughing.

Puzzled my daughter says "what's so funny?"

We just kept laughing. Eventually, I said "they aren't the same girl baby, they are all different boys and girls".

Sats for all, GR