My Footsteps?

An acquaintance of mine who is a physician told this story about her then-4-year-old daughter. On the way to preschool, the doctor had left her stethoscope on the car seat, and her little girl picked it up and began playing with it. _Be still, my heart,_ thought my friend, _my daughter wants to follow in my footsteps!

Then the child spoke into the instrument: "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take you order?"