My daughter and I were watching anime earlier today. A little boy appeared on the screen, with a piece of straw sticking out of his mouth, trying to look tough. She said, “He’s smoking weed, Mom.”:eek:
Sure he did. It’s Return of the Living Dead.
Kids tend to string things along without caring.
Reminds me of a time when a four year old decided that “Spiderman” was his favourite movie and he’d tell me about it. Did you ever hear a four year old describe the plot to a movie. It starts somewhere in the middle of the picture and goes into directions that couldn’t possibly exits.
Also kids watch and when you react to a single word, they remember and work that word into other conversations to provoke the reaction
A co-worker told the story of her seven-year-old son announcing that he had a girlfriend, but he wasn’t “ready to bring her into the family yet.”
I’ve told this one here before - but to me it’s a classic - and explains male thinking more succinctly than any book could.
My son at 5 or 6 announced to me in the car one day, “Sometimes I get a stiffy at school”. I explained that was quite normal and he shouldn’t worry about it. Then female curiosity got the better of me, and I asked, “Do you get a stiffy when you see a pretty girl or something?” To which he responded - “No, I get a stiffy when I see something I like - Like Lego. In fact sometimes I don’t ever know I like something, until I get a stiffy”.
That explained so very many things to me about the male psyche.
Why does that remind me of Order of the Stick?
“This is my friend Mr. Stiffy, and this is my friend Mr. Squishy. Want to have tea?”
My daughter is a Doctor Who fan (she has her own Dr. Who clubhouse and everything). Last week she asked me and my wife:
“Does Rose and the Doctor sleep together?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, they’re in the Tardis. There’s no bedrooms, so I figure when they go to sleep they have to sleep together.”
“Oh, there are bedrooms all right. They just never show them. And there’s one for each of them.”
“How do you know?”
“It was all explained in Mommy’s Dr. Who” (The Tom Baker years)
That seemed to satisfy her.
When she was much younger, she would constantly ask of a TV/movie character: "Are they dead?"They could be sleeping, knocked out, or even dead, she would still ask “Are they dead?”
:eek: I hope you weren’t drinking a coke or whatever at the time…