A young couple were complaining about their child.  It seems that he was very quiet.  In fact, he never spoke at all.  They didn’t mind this when he was a baby, but when he grew to be eight years old, he still hadn’t uttered a sound.  Then all of a sudden at the dinner table one evening, he said, “Pass the salt.”

Shocked beyond belief, the father said, “How come in eight years you never spoke?”

The kid replied, “Well, up to now everything was all right.”