Yesterday Ro and I were playing with an Easter Egg coloring kit. We had bought one of those all in one theme kits, that come with coloring tabs, stickers, egg holders, some game cards and more stickers – all Sesame Street themed.
While we were playing with the contents and the box the following dialog happened:
Ro: which sticker do you want?
Me: I don’t know, let me look.
Ro: Here… (giving me the sticker sheet and patiently waiting for me to choose my sticker)
Me: I take the green one
Ro: OK, (peeling and very serious now), they sometimes don’t come off like that…
(I love it when he shares his rich life experience with me :))
Me: Let me look at the box what stickers there are
Ro: there’s no sticker on the box
(The box showed a bunch of colorful eggs decorated with all kinds of stickers)
Me: *yes*, there are stickers on the box (me now pointing to them on the front of the box)
Ro: (looking very interested, holding the box up against the light in an angle and claiming): Naaa, that’s no sticker! – That’s a picture!!!

Of course he was right. The box had a picture of eggs with stickers, not the stickers themselves. Funny how we use language in context never thinking much about it….