Plans for the future II

N: (in the car on the way to SF) I wish I could be a nun when I grow up.

Mom: (calmly) Tell me more about that? Why do you want to be a nun?

N: Because nuns are really fun.

Mom: Yeah. Well you could be a nun if you wanted to.

N: No. You can't be a nun and be married and I want to get married.

Mom: You have to be Catholic too, and you're not Catholic.

N: Are all nuns Catholic?

Mom: The Adrian nuns are Catholic.

Dad: There are buddhist nuns too. You could be a buddhist nun.

N: I don't want to be buddhist.

Mom: Why not?

N: I'm not really into buddha.

Mom: You could be Catholic, maybe.

N: No. I don't want to be Catholic, it's not fun at all.

Mom: Why don't you want to be Catholic? I'm just curious.

N: They believe in things that aren't real.

Mom: What isn't real to you?

N: You know. People don't die and then come back to life.

Mom: Oh, yeah, that. Some people just believe that that's a story, a way of thinking about things and are still Catholic.

N: I don't want to be Catholic. It's boring.


And the moral of the story is?