“Kids these days” June 20, 2008

In my local yahoogroups-based mom’s group, we’d had a (tongue-in-cheek) discussion about how, if the telemarketers and spammers are to be believed, I must the luckiest person on the planet since several times a week I win fabulous prizes and large sums of money in draws and lotteries which I’ve never even heard of, much less entered.  Then I get another one of these emails claiming I won another meeeelllion dollars.  Even more remarkably, this was for the 2010 FIFA world cup or some such nonsense.  So, turns out I’m so incredibly lucky, I even win lotteries in the future.  The bottom line in the email was “just reply with all your personal information so we can send you a big fat check”.

I mocked this ploy again in email to the mom’s group.  Here’s a reply that made me laugh.

Just makes me lose all regard for these id thieves when they’ve gotten so lazy they’re not even willing to dig through the trash like the stand-up thieves of the past. This next generation is just getting lazy!!

Observation June 14, 2008

Going through stuff in my bathroom closet, it occurs to me that impulse buying @ Costco in combination with a bad memory can result in a 43 y.o.  having a supply of Q-tips that will be more than adequate for her and her family for the rest of her natural life.  Even assuming she lives to a ripe old age.

What tickles their funny bones June 14, 2008

DS2 just comes into my office “mommy you have to come see something on the computer”.

So I go with him and DS3 is playing this game where there is a word with a missing letter and then a blank in a sentence that the word fits into. There are falling letters that you have to catch and put in the missing space to spell the word right.

Anyway… we go out and DS2 says to DS3 “OK, do it again, do it again”. Dutifully, DS3 clicks on something and the computer reads the sentence “Do you think mommy dinosaurs _____ (knit)__ baby brontosaurus booties”. Right on cue, all 3 of them collapse in loud, hysterical laughter. Then he clicks it again, and they do it again.

Like their mother, they are easily amused.

Amusing misheard kid stuff June 14, 2008

An old one I came across in cleaning up my gazillions of email folders which I am attempting to clean up… (from 05/05)

Driving home from preschool we drive past a park that, while it’s a perfectly lovely park, as far as I can tell it was designed by a planning committe which did not include any parents! It’s a very narrow park between two busy roads with no fences and walkways (or paved escape routes) from all the play areas.

So DS1 asks if we can please stop at the park. I say no, he cranks it up a notch to pestering so I explain that I just can’t go to that park by myself with the 3 of them because it’s not very safe for 2 year olds prone to bolting. I told him could go to *Kidscape* instead (which we also refer to as “the close park” since it’s by us.)

So he’s quiet for a bit and then he says, “You know what, Mommy?” (What?) I think they should call *this* park Kid Escape instead of the close park”. I just agreed and saved the explanation that it’s “Kidscape” not Kid *Escape* for another day.

A more recent one…

We were in Toronto and finally made it up the CN Tower after having plans to do so be foiled by weather on two previous trips. Of course, the boys were suitably impressed with the spectacular view. On the way down, DS2 says “Mommy, I know why they call it the CN Tower”. Me: Really? Why? Because you are so high up you can see everything. It took me a minute to realize that he thinks it is the “Seeing Tower”. Again, he was feeling so clever I just let him continue to think that.