Kids Say The Darndest Things
November 22nd, 2006
[Staring into the frozen food/ice cream section at the supermarket. A kid, no more than 7 years old, standing next to me doing the same exact thing.]
Kid: “What are you going to get?”
Me: “Probably some Ben & Jerrys. It’s good, have you had it?”
Kid: “I’m not allowed. It causes heart-attacks.”
Me: “Ice cream doesn’t cause heart-attacks.”
Kid: “Studies show that they so too cause heart attacks.”
Me: “Well, that’s if you eat it all the time like for every meal or something.”
Kid: “It’s healthier if you eat vegetables. Even frozen ones.”
Me: “That’s great.”
[A long pause. I go to open the freezer and pick out some ice cream.]
Kid: “So you’re still going to get the ice cream?”
Me: “Yeah. Don’t worry - I’ll go to the gym after and work it off.”
Kid: “My dad says people have had heart-attacks at the gym.”
[I just smile. Take my ice cream. And leave.]
hahahaha. poor kid is going to have a heart attack from worrying about having one too much.
Comment by kristin — November 22, 2006 @ 7:47 am
that’s one way to scare a kid off sugar i guess. maybe don’t employ such a tactic with your little one?
what flavor did you get??
Comment by ms. sizzle — November 22, 2006 @ 7:56 am
Sizz - The best flavor ever…Oatmeal Cookie something or other. It’s cinnamon ice cream with swirls of oatmeal cookie. Good god, it’s like crack.
Comment by Pauly D — November 22, 2006 @ 7:57 am
Oh, that made me laugh….I do love conversations with kids. Especially the ones you don’t know.
Comment by comment4U — November 22, 2006 @ 8:14 am
OMG! PAULY’S GONNA DIE!!!
Fortunately, I don’t go to the gym, so I only have a 50% chance of dying.
Comment by Dave2 — November 22, 2006 @ 8:43 am
Cherry Garcia baby
Comment by monkeyinabox — November 22, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
Happy Thanksgiving!
Comment by Amy — November 22, 2006 @ 6:51 pm
That kid has the shittiest father ever.
Comment by brooke — November 22, 2006 @ 7:14 pm
Is this the same evil, duplicitous dad who ate his kid’s jumbo Butterfinger? Wow, he will stop at nothing to get his sugar fix.
Comment by susan — November 22, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
Chunky Monkey man.
Sadly, it reinforces that old adage, “You are what you eat”, but it is so worth it.
Comment by Meg — November 23, 2006 @ 4:17 am
That kid won’t live to heart-attack age, he’ll be bludgeoned to death by a Wavy Gravy-wielding sugar-crazed blonde… if he lives in my zip-code, that is.
Comment by cinekat — November 23, 2006 @ 6:29 am
I think I know this kid. Does he have brown hair?
Comment by purpletwinkie — November 26, 2006 @ 10:28 am
My son told me yesterday mommy when i went to the bathroom earlier i wiped myself and had a little blood.
He asked “mom what is wrong with me?”
He stood still and in shock said “ohhh don’t tell meee”,
I said what’s wrong?
He said “that i am turning into a G I R L”
i burst out laughing saying why would you say that??
He said “i am too young”
When we got home i told my husband and when we got out the room, my son was outside waiting for us he asked “mommy did you tell daddy?” lol
I had to sit down and explain to him that boys do not get their period. lol
Even worse when i went to tell his sister who is 11 the story, before i even finished telling her, she said “oh my Gosh, he got it too”, don’t know which of the two are worse. lol
Comment by Vanessa — December 8, 2006 @ 10:23 am