This was on a flight home to Japan several years ago. The little girl next to me asked me, "What sound does a cow make?"
"Moo."
"Yeah!" She giggled and screamed. She was about 4 years old.
"And what sound does a pig make?", she asked.
I made some pig sounds. (oink, groan, squeal, grunt)
"Yeah!" Again she giggled and screamed. Her mother asked her to quiet down.
This went on for the whole flight whenever she could think of a new animal.
She eventually asked me nonsense questions like, "What sound does an octopus make?"
I make up octopus noises, clam noises and butterfly noises as best my imagination could muster.
She pulled out a coloring book and asked if I wanted to color.
"Sure." It was another 8 hours and I had nothing better to do.
So we colored red and blue striped zebras, polka dot elephants and pink lions.
She screamed a high pitch scream when I came up with new coloring ideas.
Eventually, she fell asleep and I talked with her mother. They were permanently moving back to Japan after living a few years in the states.
Having a cute, giggly, creative girl next to me on a flight was never something I imagined would be so fun. She was hilarious and somehow not intimidated at all.
I wonder how she's doing. That was probably 10 years ago now.
I have a picture somewhere that I'll upload when I get the chance.