"Mummy, can I order a Tsunami?"

The amazing thing about being a kid is that you can say whatever you want but nobody gets insulted whatsoever. The ratio goes like this, the younger you are, the lesser sense will be expected of you. If you do not know by now, you should. Sensitive word endurance threshold gets lowered and then lower as your age increases. My 5 year old niece asked her mum at Swenson's if she can order a tsunami coz they always order the earthquake. She was over heard by a nearby kid who asked his/her parents - on the spot - for a tsunami as well. Kids at that age, when they say things like this, adults go "ah...so cute, so funny", "how on earth did they think of a thing like that?" followed by laughter, yadda, yadda. Kids at 12, when they say that will probably be hushed by accompanying adults "sssh! you shouldn't go about saying such things. it's not a very funny statement you know?" then all the crap on why it is not really that funny - if the accompanying adult were a patient one else a "shut up lah. why you so boliao?" would suffice. Teens at 18 will get a "you're a young adult now and you should know that's not funny and be more sensitive to the world around you!!!" Note the use exclamation marks. The amount of crap the teen will receive at this time will be tabulated based on the above again - see Kids at 12. Adults at my age will simply get a glare, a how lame can you get speech or simply be ignored. The funny statements no longer funny but more like a prick. Seems like character, skin, hair etc are not the only things that people take for granted to mature when you get older. A careless statement can now mean so many ways. I'm not even including factors such as like or dislike for the speaker, situation, blah blah. So can you still order a Tsunami? The answer is no. At least not in a way that I know of and certainly not at Swenson's though.