Kids Say the Darnedest Things

What do you get when you cross the term “jaywalking” with the expression “naked as a jaybird”? Ask my then tween daughter. After watching several people walk in front of our car as we waited to pull in to a local restaurant parking lot, she nonchalantly stated, “When I was a kid, I thought jaywalking meant walking with your pants off. I couldn’t figure out why so many people said it, because not once did I ever see someone crossing the street with no pants on.” Evidently she was combining “jaywalking” with “naked as a jaybird.”