Stopped dead in my tracks in the parking lot of my co-op by the ‘MILF’ sticker but it’s the ‘please let me merge’ possum that made me pull out my camera.
the thing they dont tell you about working with little kids is it wrecks your vocabulary. you hear a kid phrase something bizarrely in a way only a 5 year old can and now any time you lose shit youre like “it dissed appear”
every time someone tells me to be careful, in my head i repeat what one of my kids said as a small child.
i AM be carefulling.
Oh, that’s a neat reanalysis there. Clearly the child interpreted “Be careful” not as a phrase consisting of the imperative of “to be” plus the adjective “careful”, but rather, as a single verb “becareful”, and then inflected it accordingly. This is the opposite of the child who said “I am being have” for “I am behaving”, having interpreted the verb “behave” as “be” plus “have”
as a child being told “the moon controls the tides” with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you’re talking about magic right now? okay. fine
sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn’t ready for “the sun is a distant gorilla”. thank you NASA
I, THE DRIVER BEHIND YOU AT THIS STOPLIGHT, HAVE DEDUCED THAT YOU COULD HAVE THREADED THAT LEFT TURN BETWEEN THOSE TWO CARS IF YOU FLOORED IT BEARING 92° SOUTH AND CAUGHT THE WIND.
