Dangerous Information

The following conversation took place on Tuesday morning during breakfast, before I had to take Eli to school.

Eli (singing):  We are the pirates that don't do anything, we just stay home and lie around... I've never licked a chipmunk and I've never gotten Head Lights ...
Mommy:  You know they say 'head lice', not head lights.
Eli:  No, it's head lights.
Mommy:  Nope.
Eli:  What's head lice?
Mommy:  Little bugs that live in people's hair.
Eli (looking a bit perplexed): Do they eat people's hair?
Mommy:  No, they eat their heads and make people's heads itch a lot.
Eli (scratching his head):  My neck is itching.
Mommy:  You don't have head lice, Eli.
Eli:  Why not?
Mommy:  Because your hair is too short for them to live in it.  It's only people with long hair.
Eli:  You have long hair, Mommy.
Mommy:  Eli, I do not have head lice!
Eli:  Why not?
Mommy:  Because it is only for dirty people (sorry for the offense).
Eli:  But I'm dirty.
Mommy:  No you are not. 

I might mention that I have an abnormal fear of contracting head lice.  All my life this has been my fear, though I've never had them.  Now, at too young of an age, Eli might have that same fear.  I was hoping I wouldn't get a note from school because Eli went in and told him he had head lice or something.  I really should do a little considering before I pass on information to my impressionable young son with a ridiculous memory.