Jeff Yoak ([info]yoak) wrote,
@ 2008-05-27 22:59:00
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Parents say the oddest things...
Parenting opens up a whole world of experiences simply unavailable to the childless. A constant perceptual reminder is hearing yourself and a spouse say things that would simply be unimaginable in other contexts. For instance, today, not as a joke or anything but as a simple statement of fact, I found myself saying, "Fishies don't like salami."

Another great example was Kate yesterday saying with grave solemnity that, "You don't skate with a potty on your head."

Boy this is fun! :-)

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[info]starling321
2008-05-28 02:51 pm UTC (link)
I very much agree! You gain all sorts of weird expertise too. I never knew I would become obsessive about building cool complex train sets for example. I've also had to become much better at building lego space ships. (I had about zero lego as a child.)

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[info]yoak
2008-05-28 03:46 pm UTC (link)
We lay a lot of train track for Thomas and Friends. We have about three sets now and so can set up some fairly complex things.

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[info]scottsch
2008-05-28 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Actually, fishies do like salami. Goldfish will eat anything.

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[info]doooook
2008-05-28 06:00 pm UTC (link)
Not only can I picture myself saying those things, but I can also picture myself being told those things ... especially if it was Saturday night and I was more than slightly inebriated.

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[info]madbard
2008-05-28 07:23 pm UTC (link)
>"You don't skate with a potty on your head."

I hope Alex followed up with the proper response of "Oh YEAH?" and ran off to find equipment for a demonstration.

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[info]yoak
2008-05-28 07:29 pm UTC (link)
That statement was prompted by his already being in progress with said activity. Though he doesn't yet possess the eloquence to state it, I took his continuance of said activity to imply, "Shows what you know."

That kid'll go far if they don't hang him first.

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[info]madbard
2008-05-28 07:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm going to have to write another song, aren't I.

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[info]yoak
2008-05-28 07:40 pm UTC (link)
There's no end of fodder for one. When I look back two decades (!) on the Jeff Song, at least I'm just dealing with people now hearing, "To know him is to have to lend him money..." At least it was written late enough in my life that there weren't too many potty-head references. :-)

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[info]madbard
2008-05-28 07:41 pm UTC (link)
I see we've already forgotten about the Baja Cantina Outburst.

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[info]yoak
2008-05-28 07:45 pm UTC (link)
I nearly followed "late enough" with "... or early enough" to allow for just that sort of memory.

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