My kids were really upset with me when I told them that my job as an engineer did not mean that I drove trains for a living

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Yup, and I do not fix up fancy cars for a living either. Sighhhhhh

HAHAHA, that's the best thing I've heard today.

Children are very innocent, but I would like to know what led them to think that you were a train driver.

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