Children have a unique way with words that can really surprise us and leave us trying to catch our breath from laughing so hard. It’s no wonder why shows like “Kids Say the Darndest Things” had such a huge audience. Kids just don’t have the same filters holding them back that adults have, meaning they are more free and open to expressing what’s on their minds.

And the best part is that because of their innocence, they are always sincere in their commentary, not even trying to be funny. In this joke, a mom and her son sit down for a nice meal at Taco Bell (yes, I know, but that’s not the joke); pretty soon, the little boy has the whole restaurant laughing and his mom red-faced with embarrassment. My three year old son had a lot of problems with potty training; and I was on him constantly. One day we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch in between errands.

It was very busy, with a full dining room. While enjoying my taco, I smelled something funny, so of course, I checked my seven month old daughter, and she was clean. Then I realized that Matt had not asked to go potty in a while, so I asked him and he said, “No.” I kept thinking, “Oh Lord, that child has had an accident and I didn’t have any clothes with me.” Then I said, “Matt, are you sure you did not have an accident? “No,” he replied. I just knew that he must have, because the smell was getting worse. S00000….I asked one more time, “Matt, did you have an accident?”

Matt jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over and spread his cheeks and yelled…. “SEE, MOM, IT’S JUST FARTS!!!” While 100 people nearly choked to death on their tacos, he calmly pulled up his pants and sat down to eat his food as if nothing happened.

I was mortified! Some kind elderly people made me feel a lot better, when they came over and thanked me for the best laugh they had ever had!!! Another old gentleman stopped us in the parking lot as we were leaving, bent over to my son and said, “Don’t worry son, my wife accuses me of the same thing all the time…I just never had the nerve to make the point like you did.”