Lifesaver

Not as clumsy or random as a blaster.

I was sitting in a restaurant enjoying lunch with Boo today and couldn't help but eavesdrop into the conversation of the 2 boys behind me.

Not that I make a habit of listening in to the arguments of 7 year olds. They were just really loud and kept going on and on about how they killed this and smashed that using their "Life Savers"

"It's funny," I said. "Have you ever noticed that all little kids think a Lightsaber is called a Lifesaver?"

"What's it called?"

"A Lightsaber."

"It's not a Lifesaver?" she replied, looking at me as if I had lost my very last marble.

"No. It's a saber made of light. Life Savers are the little candies with the whole in the middle." I'm certain at this point the Jedi behind us had stopped recounting their brilliant killing spree and were now eavesdropping on us. Through hours and hours of Lego Star Wars, their Lifesavers had elegantly saved their precious little video game lives.

"Into exile I must go. Failed, I have."

"Why would a candy you could choke on be called a Life Saver and who the heck knows what a saber is anyhow? Of course all little kids think its called a Lifesaver."

"You can't choke on them that's why…wait, it's a saber, like a sword or a knife. How can you not know this?"

"Ahhh," she said. "Saber Tooth Tiger."

Help us Obi Wan.