I Wanna Be Like You, Daddy

A story from a co-worker. To protect the guilty, we'll call him Big. Big has a young son, who we'll call Small. I don't know how old Small is, but for the sake of the story we'll say he's 6.

Big was telling us about Small. It seems that Small had seen a cartoon recently with some penguins in it. That, plus the recent ice storm, got him to thinking.

"Daddy," he said, "I want to have a bigger belly."

"Why?"

"I want to be able to slide on my belly on the ice like the penguins!"

"Oh. Yeah, that sounds like fun."

"But I don't want it to be too big. I just wanna be fat like you, Daddy."