Thing things that you don't know you don't know.

Trying to work out what to watch on TV last night, and there was a documentary on about the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the twin towers.

Other half turns to me "we don't need to see another documentary on Sept 11 do we?" "nah, probably not..I think we've seen enough - maybe on Sept 11 we can watch one". Miss 12 "Why is there a documentary about the 11th of September?"  "Because that's when the twin towers got crashed into by the planes." I naively respond - thinking that would settle the discussion.  "Oh we should watch that movie" States Miss 12... "It's not a movie, it's real life...have you never heard of the Sept 11 attacks on the twin towers" It appears not - no.

So we sit down to watch the documentary.  Miss 12 is full of interesting questions, about war, about terrorism...about what the heck actually happened.  Granted she wasn't born yet - but how has she been through 12 years of life and 8 years of school not hearing about this?!

At one point there was a very priceless question.  "So how come the terrorists here don't do that". I respond: "Well, we don't really have terrorists here, and our security is pretty good - so even if they have a go at blowing something up they'll likely get caught."  "how come they just let them walk around and stuff" She asks...  "Well, we don't really know which ones are terrorists until they try something bad.  But we have lots more security now than back then - you know how when we went to Australia we got xrayed.  They never used to do that."  Next question "So their backpacks get scanned too".  "Yeah of course" I reply "They all do".

"Man" she says "Next time I see them terrorists walking around with their back packs on I'm gonna tell them off".  What - you can't you won't know, I question.  "Yeah, they come off planes and boats and stuff and walk around with their sunhats and backpacks."

OHHH Tourists.  We're on different words little one...let me explain the difference!