“I’m not interested in trading card games, and besides you have to have lots of rubber bands.”
family
Walking through the Graveyard
- Second Eldest: Who died?
- Eldest: Lot’s of people, by the looks of it.
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“Grandma’s Hands” by Bill WIthers (1971)
Christmas night down my way.
Bowling With Adam
the McFly effect
“n. the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people they grew up with, which reboots their personalities into youth mode, reverting to a time before the last save point, when they were still dreamers and rascals cooling their heels in the wilderness, waiting terrified and eager to meet you for the first time.”
At the Zoo (first animal in)
- 8 year old: What are these maps?
- Parent: Well, the red shows where in the world flamingos actually live.
- 8 year old: Why do they live in those places.
- Parent: Well I think it might be because all those place are hot and damp, so there’s water, they like water.
- 8 year old: It’s not red where we live.
- Parent: No, they don’t normally live in England.
- 8 year old: So why are they here.
- Parent: Well, people brought them here, built them this enclosure, and they get fed everyday.
- 8 year old: Oh…
- 8 year old: So they’re trapped.
- Parent: Um..well…yes…I suppose they are.
- 8 year old: >>wanders off giggling to herself<<
“How can a mummy be alive when it has no internal organs?”
Conversation of the Weekend
- 5 year old A: “Daddy, why didn’t people see dinosaurs?”
- Grown-Up: “Well, they died a very long time ago.”
- 5 year old A: “Before people?”
- Grown-Up: “A long time before there were people.”
- 5 year old A: “Oh”
- 5 year old B: “Yes, they died on the cross.”
- Grown-Up: “……..ermm…no, I think that might’ve been Jesus”
Paul Greer 