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February 23, 2005
Cast Away Comment
When you have children around, no comments are cast away comments.
I realized this yesterday morning.
My wife and I were talking about some power-line workers who had left their unmanned truck parked in the middle of our road; not allowing anyone to enter or leave the neighborhood.
I used the term "slackers" to describe them.
Which immediately bounced through my sons neural paths made some connections and brought forth his speech, "Kinda like cops who eat doughnuts and do paperwork."
He later ammended "paperwork" to "read the paper".
My eyes got wide and I asked the boy where he had heard such a thing. Of course, I surmised, from TV or friends at school. No way it could be anywhere else.
The boy replied, "Pastor Bob". Well, no he didn't, but that would have been nicer than what he really said which was, "You."
I kind of chuckled. Kind of. I couldn't think of a time where I would have said something like that in front of the boy. I mean; I rarely yell at my wife in front of the children, and almost always am inarticulate when I lose my temper, so I am at least careful. (Those comments are tongue-in-cheek and don't necessarily reflect reality... necessarily).
So I asked him when he had heard this.
"In San Antonio, while driving to the coffee shop, last year."
Do I remember it? No.
Should I? Got me.
So, my son's memory is scary, and I have to watch out for my cast away comments. They will be picked up.
And as a good father, I had to correct my previous statements and rectify the situation of the cast away comment.
"Now, son. Don't say that. You know it isn't nice. Even if daddy did say that. What you should say instead is... Kinda like policemen who eat doughnuts and do paperwork. They don't like to be called cops."
Posted by oriondark at February 23, 2005 09:49 AM
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Hey, good to see that you have a blog.
Chris
Posted by: Chris Trimmier at February 23, 2005 04:13 PM