It is never a good idea to try to prank a smart five year old. My Grandson was watching me play for several hours with numerous comments and questions. Since he has seen me land a F-14 on an Aircraft Carrier, he was intrigued by the constant "Automatic Landing" feature in Freelancer. I decided to re-play Freelancer without any MODs just for fun - one more time. I spent about an hour landing on every base in the New York System. When I landed on Manhattan for the fifth or sixth time my grandson piped up and asked about landing on the star. I was going to be educational and explain things like heat, gravity and radiation when I got inspiration from an old joke I heard. I told him, "You can only land on a star at night time when it is cooled off." Two days later, I get a call from his school to call his teacher. Seems my grandson was spreading my vast wealth of knowledge to his fellow First Graders. I still haven't called his teacher yet, but I did correct my information to my grandson, who quite frankly told me that "Lying is not nice!"
So the next time I plan to educate my grandson on Space, Rockets, Stars and Planets, I'll used Wiki as a source. I'm still waiting for his teacher to stop by the house and rap my knuckles for telling lies to my grandson.
I can't wait for him to ask about "How Babies are Made?" I think I'll use the "Test tube and lightning bolt" story on him then. Some kids will repeat anything you say or do, so now I only lie to my wife at night!
