Monster Etymologies

“Hey, Daddy? Know I saw in the snow in the backyard?”

“What?”

“Footprints!”

“Bigfoot footprints?”

“No.”

“Sasquatch footprints?”

“No!”

“Yeti footprints?”

“No!!”

“Abominable Snowman footprints?”

“No!!!”

“Well, what type of footprints did you see?”

“Animal footprints.”

“Well, what do you think Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, or the Abominable Snowman is?”

Comfortable silence as we continue our walk to school.

“Daddy, what combination of monster is the Abominable Snowman?”

“He’s half abominable, and half snowman.”

Another pause.

“Hey Daddy! I know what combination a Sasquatch is!”

“What?”

“He’s sassy, and he wears a watch!”

Then she jauntily sashays about in the snow, doing her six-year-old best to imitate a seven-foot-tall four-hundred-pound hairy hominid angling its arm about proudly showing off a very swanky timepiece.