Children are odd

When my oldest son was almost a year old, his favorite pastime was pulling all the pots and pans out of the cupboard so he could crawl inside. I'm not sure how many toys we had, plenty I'm sure, but the pots and pans somehow won out. It's like the saying: if you give a kid a toy, he'll play with the box. My boys, who are much older now, still have similar eccentricities. One of my co-workers loaned us a set of National Geographic-type animal documentaries. There are about 12 video tapes in a collector's box. So far, my boys have organized them into alphabetical order by title, alphabetical order by the name of the animal pictured on each tape's box and separated marine animals from birds and land dwellers. They have yet to actually watch one of the movies.
And now for a lunch lady riddle:
Today, a partially toothless and lisping 1st grader came back to the serving line after getting his tray. He elbowed through the 4th graders to talk to me. When I asked him what was up, he said, "You know that edge of my chocolate milk?" --making a right angle with his two hands. I asked him to repeat himself, and when he said and did the exact same thing, I said, "Yeah, " trying to conjure up and image of "his" particular chocolate milk. He continued, "Well, the edge went up like this"--motioning with his hands--"and now it's curved, so I can't drink out of it." Had I not been serving pizza and cookies like a madwoman, I would have gone to his table to figure out what was going on. But because I was so busy, he was handed a second chocolate milk and he went on his way. I'm no expert, but I have used a milk carton or two and I've never had my "edge" get so "curved" that I couldn't drink out of it. Obviously I'm doing it wrong.