Me: I like this song.

Grandboy: It’s a nice song.

Me: I first heard it when your momma was almost your age.

Grandboy: Really? She was 8 years old?

Me: No, she was like 12, I think.

Grandboy (frowning): GRANDPA. That’s not even CLOSE.

Me: Ah. Just give it a few decades.

Grandboy: What’s a ‘decade’?

Me: You’ll find out soon enough.

Grandboy: Grandpa.

Me: Ok. You’re almost a decade old. A decade is ten years. Some people are many decades old.

Grandboy (thinking): Yah like someone who’s 100 years old is ten decades old. That’s rare for someone to be ten decades old, huh, grandpa?

Me: Yep. I might live to be ten decades old maybe?

Grandboy: Yah you might live that long. You’re pretty old already, so you might make it.