Some Mid-day Trivia

This morning I was driving to the HUMONGOUS DFW airport to pick up Jay. It really is a huge airport, well, maybe not the inside, but the outside is like 6 freeway exits to get to your desired terminal. Insane. You have to get on the right highway (which, despite the fact that this airport is humongous, I did not do and STILL missed in my first attempt to get there this morning) and then once you are, Terminals A-E are big ol' freeway-like exits. Then after you take your right off-ramp, then you have two more choices of direction, and then I've only ever chosen "Arrivals" but even after that, there's two more choices. We are rats in a maze and Jay is our piece of cheese. It's okay, I think if Jay had to be any food, it would be cheese.

Anyway, as I'm nearing the airport the SECOND time around, Ben asks, "When will we see Daddy?" I say, "Really soon, we are sooo close!" Then he asks, "Hey! What does 'soon' mean?"
And this is what I came up with:

It means, s-s-s...It means pretty s-s-s...uhhh, it's like, in the near fut---it's coming up....it's....

What it WAS, was entirely ridiculous. WHAT DOES SOON MEAN!?!?! Is the reason that I, an intelligent woman, cannot define soon because I have conversations like this regularly:
Ben: Somebody broke my fire truck
Me: What happened?
Ben: It's broken
Me: How did it break?
Ben: Somebody broke it.
Me: What's wrong with it? How do you know it's broken?
Ben: Because it won't work

The sad thing about this dialogue is, I'm the idiot in the conversation. He is answering every question I ask. He later came crying about it again (it sadly is not making it's 110 decibels screeching siren sound, the jury is still out on whether this constitutes broken or blessing) and I suggested he might need a nap. He suddenly forced a horrific smile that looked more like a chihuahua bearing it's teeth and "cheerfully" said, "But I'm happy! I'm just happy" combined with some lovely forced laughs. We really do condition our children unknowingly. This all stems from, "Your whining and crying tells me you are tired." So obviously, happy and forced giggles means you aren't tired.

I'll give a quarter to anyone who can define soon for me. I'll make it a vintage eagle coin if you do it without making me feel like a complete idiot.