Thanks For the Help, Bro!

The other day, I was meeting with a couple of siblings, a boy and a girl. The freckle-faced girl came into my room carrying her snack in a zip-lock bag. Noticing that her brother didn't have one, she offered to share hers with him. "No thanks," he said. "I just had mine...pirate's booty." Giggling, his sister said, "That's popcorn, Miss Mimi." Repeating the name and snickering, she continued, "Booty...that's funny!" "Well booty can actually have two meanings," I said. The snack means pirate's TREASURE, and then there's that other meaning, the one you're laughing about. Shaking her head and laughing up a storm, the little girl kept repeating, "Booty, that's funny!" With an exasperated look on his handsome face, her spikey-haired brother looked at her and said, "Now Sissy, would you say that in front of MOMMY?" Grinning, I said, "Good point, Brother! And if she wouldn't say it in front of MOMMY, she probably shouldn't be saying it in front of MIMI, either!"