It's often amusing what young children ask or say in their youthful innocence of not "knowing better than to say that!" Unless it's my kid who said it; then it's sort of exasperating because I have to be the one to tell him "don't say that, you might embarrass/offend someone."
For a little background, I've hair long hair ever since graduate school. I've only cut it short twice since; once for my first out-of-school interviews, and again for my wedding. I usually wear it in a pony-tail to keep it out of my eyes. Rarely does anyone comment on it.
Except this weekend, at a birthday party for one of my six-year-old's friends.
Little six-year-old boy: Why do you have a ponytail?
Me: Because I have long hair, and it'd be in my face if I didn't, and then I wouldn't be able to see.
Little boy (after a pause to digest that): Why is your hair long?
Me: Because I'd look silly with short hair.
I'm not sure where the questions might have gone next, as my own six-year-old started pulling me toward the door to go home. I had to laugh at the whole thing, though. Kids!