"Dad, getting a Christmas tree with you is better than time-out."

Now mind you, this came up in the car on the way to getting the tree where the topic of "time-out" was not on our minds in the least and I don't think time-outs had been a topic that entire day and, all-in-all, the whole tree trip thing was greeted by Nick as a fun, cool, man-to-man task. So, one might easily interpret his quote along the lines of: "Dad, getting a Christmas tree with you is better than a hot poker in the eye." But, I know he was honestly trying to just come up with a way of saying how much he enjoyed doing the tree thing with me instead of some other, less desirable activity....at least that is the way I am going to interpret it!