Having the last word

The girls play a word game in the car on their way to their dad’s and home every other weekend.  We like to call it RAILROAD.

The first girl spells railroad R-A-I-L-R-O-A-D.

The other spells a word that starts with the letter ‘D’.

Then the first spells a word that starts with the last letter of her word and so on and so on.

Last night, Tate (13) had given Newt (10) a ‘O’ word.  So Newt spells OK.   “Sister, you have a ‘K’ word”

Tate begged to differ.  “OK is not spelled OK, it’s spelled O-K-A-Y.”

“No, it’s spelled O-K”

“A-Y” argued Tate.

And back and forth they went laughing until they were crying, tears running down their cheeks.

Newt finally got the last word in by saying  “No, sister, I’m pretty sure O-K spells OK.”

Pretty hard to argue with that.