Toddlers have plenty of energy. During a standard restaurant meal, a standard toddler can easily toddle fifty-eight miles in totally random directions, while your hamburger cools and eventually reverts to a frozen patty. You have to follow toddlers closely at all times, because they could cheerfully toddle right out the door and into the path of a cement truck.

Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist

Miami Herald (18 Feb. 2001)

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