A taxing dialogue

I just figured I'd share another scintillating (yeah, I know I misspelled it. Probably misspelled the word misspelled too. I'm over it.) conversation that went on for nearly 20 minutes today.
Setting the scene: Trip to Town Hall
Pulling in, Zoe is scanning the scene to see what she can start talking about.
Zoe: "Mommy, who lives here?"
MommY: "The tax assessor and we need to have her stamp something"
Zoe: "Who is that girl?"
Mommy: "The tax assessor"
Zoe: "But WHO IS SHE!?!"
Mommy: "Stella"
Zoe: "NO MOMMY SHE IS THE TAX ACCESSORRERRRy, not STELLA Mommy. Shes not Stella Mommy!!!!"
Mommy: Silence
Zoe: "Mommy does she live here?"
Mommy: "No Zoe she just works here."
Zoe: "BUt does she LIVE here?"
Mommy: "No Zoe, she does NOT live here, she works here"
Zoe: "Does she have friends?"
Mommy: "Yes"
Zoe: "Are we her friends?"
Mommy: "I guess Zoe"
Zoe: "DO HER FRIENDS LIVE HERE MOMMY?"
(Said with great emphasis, this is CLEARLY important for her to find out. THere is always the critical question in every dialogue with Zoe and until you answer it, the conversation will not end. Realizing with her emphasis that this is the big question, I contemplate an answer that will give her closure so that, while as sure as the sun will set, this conversation will continue, at least we can move on from the topic of the tax assesor to something more exciting like the guy sitting by the fire hydrant.)
Mommy: "Zoe, the tax assessor does live in this house. The town lives in this house - it is the Town House. All of the tax assessor's friends live here with her and in fact all of the people in all of the land are our friends and all live in this Town House except for us we live in our house."

Silence

Zoe: "Mommy, where are we going?"

Mommy is actually going to california by herself for 6 days tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll miss you guys allot but will come back with something FUN.

xoxo