Many of us parent-types have already made screen names for our kids. My own daughter, a Doper in her own right, is Sakura and my son is Halford the Human Eel.
Well, this morning, the boy (8) was exhorted by his mother to go wash his hands. He ran some water over them and came back out to show us his glistening wet mitts. The following conversation ensued:
Dave-Guy: How about drying them off?
Mrs. Dave-Guy: How about using soap?
Halford the Human Eel (under his breath as he returns to the bathroom): I hate soap.
Well.
What a great sig for this kid, I thought. Actually, it’s a pretty good sig for any 8-year-old boy, but my son said it.
So, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, heck, anyone who has some association with a particular kid, what would his/her sig be, and why? Remember, use full sentences, watch your margins, and spelling counts.
At 17 months, The Littlest Doper[sup]TM[/sup] has just begun the wonderful life skill of farting and then being surprised at the sound/sensation thereby letting out a squeal like, “Woah!” How would that translate into a sig?
fraaaat. “Woah!”
(No, pun I didn’t teach him that little pearl. Although, I did get a bit misty with pride the first time he did it.)
“I am my mother’s child” Jr Ranger I, whenever I get onto her for smarting off to someone, smiles and says that. Makes me want to throw something at her head sometimes. I had to go off and laugh when I heard her tell one of her friends, “My mother is cleverly disguised as a responsible adult”.
Well, my kid’s just past two, and he loves to wail away on the keyboard, so I suppose his sig would be “jkrhkhfrhi khuhv ki iughufiddilkkkkkkkkkkkkkdfjkhdfkvh dfdfsfsdf”
…either that, or “Climbs sofas anytime – but needs help getting down.”
She’s now 11 and twice as bright as me. But when she was 3-ish, she came upon an aunt breastfeeding a cousin of hers. She asked what was going on, and the aunt replied, “I’m feeding him milk.” My daughter did a take from one breast to the other, pondered a second, and asked,
My kids make me so proud. I am sitting in the front room visiting with my biological grandmother who I have seen maybe 4 times in my life and my son (Bossy) walks in. He’s naked. He then screams, “Look I wiped my ass!” Oh yeah, that would be his sig!
As for my daughter (The Streak), she has a catch-all phrase that works for her “NO…I Wooti!” translation, “No my perfect mother, I can not do that for I am Luci and I am above such silly shit as doing whatever you are asking me for.”
