Me: “OK, kids, we’re trying a new restaurant tonight.”

Little Miss Thing, age 7: “I don’t like it.”

Me: “You don’t even know which restaurant yet.”

LMT: “I already know enough restaurants.”

Me: “Give it a chance. It’s an old school restaurant with solid comfort food. Look, here, we’re pulling up. Isn’t that a cool looking older building?”

Danger Monkey, age 10: “It would look a lot cooler if they had a Medieval Ballista mounted to the roof.”

Me: (long pause)

Me: “I can’t argue with that.”