"It Can't Be Helped"

We were most impressed with Abang's reasoning this morning.

The four of us were in the car, on the way to a birthday party.  We then noticed that along the highway near our house, a whole row of bushes planted in the middle of the highway were all brown.  Essentially, they were dead.  Diddly, diddly dead.

I exclaimed, "Hey, look!  All those bushes and some of the trees are dead!  They're all brown and dried up."

Then we saw that the ground around them had just been dug up and I remembered seeing pipes on the ground earlier this week, waiting to be buried underground.

Before I could say anything, Abang opined, "So mean, kan? They killed the trees." (A hippie in the making!)

And I replied, "Actually I remember now, they must have dug up the ground to lay the water pipes.  But so sayang, those bushes now all are dead already."

Abang, ever the critical thinker then stumped us both by saying, "It can't be helped la.  If they don't dig then how are they going to put the pipes in the ground?"

It took us awhile to recover from that.