My five-year-old son, N, is so inquisitive. He bombards me with a constant barrage of questions when we’re riding in the car. If not for Google, my son might think I’m an idiot. As it stands, he thinks I’m the most brilliant man alive. However, he does come up with some questions that even the search giant can’t answer.
These are his “what would happen if” scenarios. Some are quite innocuous such as “What would happen if I ran really fast?” Others are rather absurd such as “What would happen if the letter Y came alive?” Nevertheless, I’m constantly amazed by how his brain works. Maybe he will be an artist, engineer, or even a mad scientist. By the nature of his questions, I’m leaning towards the latter.
Here are a few more of N’s famous “What Would Happen If” questions:
- What would happen if we had lips on our feet?
- What would happen if a car jumped on a ramp and got stuck in the clouds?
- What would happen if a giant knife came out of the sky and cut the street into little pieces?
- What would happen if bugs turned into giants?
- What would happen if it snowed in our attic?
- What would happen if a stranger came in our house and started eating all of our food?
- What would happen if it rained everyday of our lives?
- What would happen if we didn’t eat cows?
- What would happen if everybody had ten eyes?
- What would happen if cars would fly?
- What would happen if Batman lived in his Batmobile?
- What would happen if I you were my little boy?
- What would happen if God lived on Earth with us?
If you know the answers to these questions, please let me know because I’m stumped.
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Those are awesome…I’m not smart enough or funny enough to take on any of the answers though! If I was a vegetarian, I could at least anwer the cow one, but alas, I love me a good burger.
I am more interested in the question, “What would happen if you were my little boy”… Can you ask N what he thinks the answer to that question is….You can learn a lot about what he thinks of you as a parent!!! uh huh!!!! That is if you are brave enough to hear the answer…..
That was ROFL funny! Oh–and once N becomes a teenager, you will have plenty of strangers coming over eating all of your food!
If the letter Y came alive, it would be the Night of the Living Ys! Because the Ys have lots of friends. All those Zzzzs that try to get people to sleep? The Ys would push the Zs out of the way, and no one would get any rest. The next day, everyone would be tired. There would be more car crashes. People would be grumpy.
I am relieved. I thought I was the only one witnessing this level of inquisitive ridiculousness.
I can answer this one for you: What would happen if a stranger came in our house and started eating all of our food? You call him Uncle Justin and just know he is related too me. He’s harmless really, just loves food.
He is great at video games, loves kids, just has issues when it comes to not thinking everyone’s fridge is fair game.
I love the questions your son asked. I’m just kinda glad he doesn’t live here, because I’d have no answers either. In fact, some days, I wish I could send my four almost five year old to someone else’s house for these types of questions. Where do rolly polly’s go at night? Where do they sleep? Do their mommies tuck them in and sing bedtime stories. My kid has a thing for rolly pollys’.
What would happen if I actually had the answers to those questions? N is a very smart and funny boy whom I love to be around. I am not surprised at the ingenuity of his questions.
Ha! Mad Scientist for sure!! So cute. He has quite the imagination.
LOL!!!!!! Oh, THANK YOU for this post this morning–made me giggle.
Okay, but wait until he hits, like, age nine and starts acting like he knows EVERYTHING! My 4th-grader, soon to be 10, truly thinks she’s smarter than me. She doesn’t say it; she just gives me the side-eye when I give her advice on her math homework (which is kinda smart of her, since I don’t know squat about math… but I digress).
I SO heart N.
These are great questions.
Now, about snowing in the attic, for gosh sakes do not attempt to take your snow blower up there. You will have to get rid of the snow the old fashioned way…shovel, shovel, shovel.
I clicked on the link to your son’s photo. Very, very sweet.
Oh my god, I can’t get over the first one, lips on our feet? I am laughing so hard, where does he come up with this stuff? Can’t wait to hear more what would happen if’s!
This is too cute but scary. My stepson wasn’t a talker but I don’t know about my 9 month old. If we are all talking he feels the need to jump in on the conversation as well. He also seems to know when we are talking about him too. This questions are too funny. If everyone had 10 eyes then things will be okay because we all of 10 eyes. No one would look different. And if our feet had lips, man that’s a tough one right there. All I think about is when we use to say our sneakers were talking when they started falling apart.
If we didn’t eat cows, the world would explode from all the methane in the air the first time someone lit a cigarette. But not really.
That’s so funny! At least he’s thinking!
Do you ask, “I don’t know. What do YOU think would happen?” I think that would provide you with more hilarity.
Wow, what a great post!
“If we had lips on our feet…”
Well, we’d probably be more inclined to clean up after ourselves. And our dogs…
My daughter is the same way. Only I’ve “googled it” so many times now that she starts with, “I have a question…oh wait. Let’s just ask The Google.”
Those are some lofty questions. Little One rarely asks those types anymore.
Yeah man I got nothing for you…. Google and Wiki are your friend in this case. LOL
I’m intrigued with the car getting stuck in the clouds….wishing that would have happened to me 2 weeks ago so that the cop wouldn’t have been able to pull me over!!!! The money that would have saved!
Most of these are way beyond me, but I would say that if we had lips on our feet, we would keep the floors a lot cleaner. Too funny. I hope we hit this phase, I’m so tired of “what does start with?”
What if bugs turned into giants- they do…have you been to Florida?!?! What if everybody had 10 eyes- maybe we would observe more and not talk as much! Love it!
Great, my boys ask some pretty crazy questions or so I thought. : ) Amazing what those little minds come up with.
Lol. Reminds me of a sort of “what if” question a friend’s daughter asked her when she was a youngin… “If I do something really bad and go to jail, and you came to visit me in jail, mama, what kind of shoes would you wear?”
Too funny! Yeah, I think the lips on our feet is my fave question, too. You’re son could be a science fiction writer and answer every one of these questions. Or maybe he could create comics!!! FTW! ;P
I love this. I can’t wait for my son to think “outside the box”. I have to admit, these questions are way outside the box. This goes beyond inquisitive. You got a smart, creative son on your hands.
Some of those answers I would probably say…”what if they didn’t?”
The what if question I would LOVE the chance to answer is “What would happen if God lived on Earth with us?”
my bet…an artist…sounds just like me…i did the same thing to my mom and any adult who would listen. often my what would happens…led to why’s because there was no google…so the answers i was given lead the way to the why’s…
be grateful:
artist have great souls &
the laker’s gave yall another few days to believe in yourself…lol
once again…great posts brotherman!
He sounds incredibly creative. I love the imagination of a child that isn’t afraid to think outside the box.
I am constantly surprised by the questions my kids ask. I love the what ifs. They give me the freedom to make things up. I’m really good at that. Now they are catching on that most of the time I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. Sigh.
Happy bloghopping!