The Sock and the Shoe

I had to share this story because it is one of my favorite's from my childhood. When my brother started asking questions about erections (yeah, ya heard me right, erections) he asked my dad what was up. No pun intended. What happened next goes down in history as the best explanation for the birds and the bees EVER!

My dad sat us all around the living room. Why did we all need to hear this, and why together at the same time? I will never know...maybe to get it done all at once. So there we are, my three brothers and I. My dad proceeds to hold a sock up.....

"You see this sock right here?"

He picks up a shoe. And tries to put the sock into the shoe.

"See, when there is no foot in there to make it hard, it won't go into the hole...right?"

We all shake our heads yes, dying for this conversation to be over.

Then he puts his foot into the sock.

"See, now the sock is hard, and slides right into the shoe, understand?" He puts his foot into the shoe.

OMG, DAD!

We all shake our heads yes again and start busting up laughing.

This will forever go down in our house hold as the "sock and the shoe" talk instead of the birds and the bees. You may want to write it down so you can explain it to your boys that eloquently.