The Dodge
Posted by Justine | August 6, 2008 | 10 Comments
-I comes into the bedroom crying.
-I: “-J hit me!”
Justine: “Why’d she hit you?”
-I: “Just because I wouldn’t answer her question! I wouldn’t answer her so she whacked me! It’s not fair! She needs a punishment, right?”
Justine: “So, what’s -J going to say if we ask her?”
-I: “I don’t know. I just wouldn’t answer her mean, nasty question, so she hit me!”
Justine: “What did -J ask you?”
Long pause.
Justine: “-I, what did -J ask you?”
-I: “Well, she asked me why I spit at her.”
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August 6th, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Oh! That so defintely could happen at my house, on any day among several combinations of siblings. It’s so reassuring to find I’m not alone in the world!
August 6th, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Oh, this is is so “kids” that it hurts! LOL
August 6th, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
It’s funny how -I tried to make an ally of you right away with the hitting=punishment equation. Good job digging into the situation. Kids.
August 6th, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
So so so reality!
August 7th, 2008 @ 12:17 am
the quintessential tale of summer. classic.
August 7th, 2008 @ 12:55 am
Ooooh, that’s a good one. That’s one beam vs. one mote.
August 7th, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
This would happen at my house, too. Very funny.
Yesterday when I was being a horrible mean mother (by making my kids do chores) my 8-year-old was shouting at me, “Why do you always have to be SO MEAN?!! JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!!” (I declined to answer the question.)
August 7th, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
18 more days until school starts.
August 8th, 2008 @ 2:46 am
That’s so funny it sound just like my kids and they’re only two and four… I guess I have a lot to look forward to.
August 9th, 2008 @ 10:42 am
Thanks for the smile. You perked up my day.