Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Overheard, Volume 2

Elbow, at lunch: "Bobo! Toddzilla said the F word."
Me, in complete shock on the inside but attempting calm, cool, and collected on the outside: "Um, what's the F word?" 
(Praying now, please Lord, let it not be so!)
Elbow: "I can't say, it's too bad."
Great.
Me: "Well, I should know at least, so I don't use it."
Elbow: "Fine. It's 'Fairies aren't real.'"
Me, breathing again: "Oh, that is bad."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh that is very bad. Fairies are a very big deal here since Cate read the Rainbow Fairy books.

Cute!

Juli said...

Oh my! Aren't you so thankful that you can be relatively sure that it really wasn't a real bad word that your kids were using?
My oldest one read a few fairy books, but she's not as girly as my middle one is. I'm sure she will enjoy them so much more.

Anonymous said...

Consider yourself lucky. My first grader came home from school with the real word last spring.

Anonymous said...

Oh, I love your choice of words to find out what the "offending" word really was! Nicely done! :)