Kyler told me that a friend of his has a mom that is the same age as me, "and she's pregnant." I mistook his doubtful tone for excitement and said, "That's great!" The look on his face told me that this was not, in fact, great. I asked what the problem was and he nervously looked around the room and said, "People your age can't have babies."
Ready for a long and drawn-out argument, I remembered the conversation we had thirty minutes prior to this in which I had to explain to Kyler what a cassette tape is, how it's used and worst, how I know this. "I was alive back then!" (Of course, in the moment I was proud and almighty).
Then I double-flash-backed a couple of years to Mae's utter shock when she realized that, "Mom, you were alive in the 1900's?! Holy cow!!!"
And before I even got the chance to triple-flash-back, I noticed that I was sitting all alone on the living room floor, laughing.
This means that it's even worse than I thought.
Taigon had an assignment on how things have changed over a lifetime, he was supposed to interview Grama. Somehow, the question popped up, directed at me. Bryce: "Mom, how did you keep dirt off the food before you had a refrigerator?" Me: "What?!" "You know, when you were a little girl and had to bury the food in a hole in the ground to keep it cool?" @#$%@#$%^!#% Wow... they REALLY think
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Haaaa!!!! They are SO funny! Seriously, if I hung out with you for one straight week, I bet I could write an entire book on the stuff your boys say!
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