Overheard yesterday at McDonald’s: “There’s not much a nine-year-old girl can do with a G.I. Joe toy.”

There are probably plenty of nine-year-old girls who would beg to differ. Still, judging from the junky Happy Meal toy the gentleman was trying to exchange, I doubt a nine-year-old boy would find it much fun either.

Oh, and there’s a strange irony to reading a book called The Thin Place in McDonald’s.