Blasphemy

He was playing with a foldable yardstick. "What are you measuring?" I asked. He let out a guttural yell and said he wasn't measuring, that he was spiderman. I told him he shouldn't scream, and I didn't care if he was being spiderman. He answered that I was being "a little bold," and told his father I had said a bad word. The bad word to the three-year-old was that I didn't care. The child is in for an enlightenment.