On Friday, as we all sat around the table for supper, I asked Six what she had done at school that day.
I was expecting to hear about maths or reading, but instead, far more interestingly, there had been high interpersonal drama in the classroom.
“Matthew was, like, REALLY naughty!” she said gleefully. “He made Jason really MAD and then Jason yelled at him and threw a book and then Jason hid under the table. Then they both had to stay in at recess”.
“Oh, poor old Jason” I said, sympathetically. “He does get upset very easily. What did Matthew do?”
“Oh my GOSH!” said Six. “It was SO FUNNY! He went like this:”
She stabbed her index finger towards her father a few times and then twirled it around beside her cocked head with her eyes crossed and her tongue hanging out.
“D’ya know what that means?!” She demanded.
Not waiting for an answer, she continued
“That means you’re CUCKOOCRAZY!”
Three immediately let out hearty gales of forced laughter and copied her gestures while I exchanged weary glances with Husband.
Six continued, unabashed
“And d’ya know what he did right after that?! HE DID THIS!!!”
She pointed at Husband again, screwed up her eyes and made a silent exaggerated show of rubbing her eyes and pretending to wail. Then she prodded me to make sure I was still paying attention, stood up for full effect and rocked an imaginary infant in her arms.
“I bet you don’t know what that means, do ya?” she taunted.
“Hmm. I’m fairly certain it still means ‘you’re a crybaby’. Am I right?”
“How did you know?” she said with genuine wonder.
“Oh honestly, sweetheart! What do you think I was before I was a grownup?”
She thought about this carefully, stumped for a minute, then a smile spread across her face when she realised that of course, she knew the answer.
“A nerd?”
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This post has made me laugh more than any other post I’ve read for ages! She’s got some gumption, hasn’t she?
‘A nerd’… too, too funny
x
Hee, hee……
She’s a sassy little thing, isn’t she? Funny how boys never relate this interpersonal drama from school. You only ever hear ‘Aidan and John had a fight’ and that’s about it….
Funnily enough, I don’t think she meant to be sassy. She seemed to think that a nerd was a logical step prior to adulthood (and I couldn’t POSSIBLY have been a child myself).
Well, that’s one better than me.
I remember being asked whether I was ‘a puppy’ before I grew up.
Yeah, yeah, don’t get started on the dog comments either…
LCM x
omg. completely, completely wonderful. we once asked my darling little niece Katie, youngest of three and my sister not planning a fourth, what she wanted to be when she grew up. ‘A big sister’ she said.
Absolutely love it – what a smart kid!
Funny! It reminds me of my younger years! She’s the coolest nerdy young lady! I love it!
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