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June 14, 2005

Still Crazy After All These Years

I just spent 1 1/2 hrs. driving WildChild to my parents'. He'd gotten a SharkBoy figure at McDonald's before we left Fayetteville, which apparently impressed him so much that he couldn't stop talking about it. For the entire trip. "What does SharkBoy do?" "I don't know, I haven't seen the movie." 5 minutes later: "What does SharkBoy DO?" "I don't know, I haven't seen the movie."

After about an hour, I told him "Listen to me. I HAVE NOT SEEN THE SHARKBOY MOVIE. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT SHARKBOY DOES. DO NOT ASK ME THAT QUESTION AGAIN."

The remainder of the trip, he kept coming up with different ways to ask "What does SharkBoy do?" It was very tempting to say "SharkBoy flies out car windows. See? Watch this."

He's so much like his dad sometimes it's just scary.

And like his dad at that age, he believes everything I tell him....which sometimes I take advantage of to do something totally rotten. Example:

When we were driving to the Tulsa airport, we kept running in and out of little rain showers. He doesn't like rain because it keeps him from playing outside, so he was complaining about wanting it to stop. He was bored, I was bored. And my daughter kept falling asleep.

Dangerous combination.

I convinced him that every time my daughter feel asleep, it made the rain start. Coincidentally, by the time he would get her awake, we'd run out of the rain shower. By the time she fell back asleep, we'd run into another one. Over and over and over.

Heh. He still remembered that causal connection on the drive home from the airport. "WAKE UP! WAKE UP!! You're making it rain!" My daughter would yell "Leave me alone! I am not making it rain!" And I would just laugh & laugh.

Mike said I was evil.

Posted by Rita at June 14, 2005 06:01 PM

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Next time you fly in or out of Tulsa Airport ... let me know ... maybe we can meet eye to eye and have a cup of coffee at the airport!

Posted by: Pk at June 14, 2005 07:54 PM

Does your family have a demon in the woodpile?

Posted by: Keith [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2005 08:09 AM

Will do, PK. Though we rarely use Tulsa now that XNA is usually pretty competitive pricewise.

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if there were Keith. You have to remember though that I was raised in a culture of pranksters & practical jokers. Plus, to paraphrase an old proverb, an idle mind is the devil's workshop. ;-)

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2005 08:23 AM