Of communists and cheerleaders
Jed has been on my mind a lot recently. He's quite the guy.
Wednesday evening he was accompanying me to go look at an upcoming job. On the way into Manchester, we had a scintillating discussion on the location of Cuba, what a communist is, who Gorbachev was, and how President Reagan told him in no unclear terms to "tear down this wall."
A week ago Saturday, Lindsay and I and the kids were going through a Dunkin Donuts drive-thru. Much to my annoyance, a group of junior high cheerleaders were on both sides of the entrance collecting money for who-knows-what. I cleverly avoided eye contact by wildly pointing at a spectacular nothing in the opposite direction while we sped by the first cheerleader. All of a sudden Jed pipes up from the back seat in a scornful voice: "Why is that cheerleader pointing at everyone and doing her stupid gymnastics thing?" Lindsay and I were laughing too hard to bother reprimanding him for saying 'stupid.'
Well, now Jed understands communists and cheerleaders. Not bad for a six-year-old, I'd say.
And that, I might add, is all he had to say about that!
Wednesday evening he was accompanying me to go look at an upcoming job. On the way into Manchester, we had a scintillating discussion on the location of Cuba, what a communist is, who Gorbachev was, and how President Reagan told him in no unclear terms to "tear down this wall."
A week ago Saturday, Lindsay and I and the kids were going through a Dunkin Donuts drive-thru. Much to my annoyance, a group of junior high cheerleaders were on both sides of the entrance collecting money for who-knows-what. I cleverly avoided eye contact by wildly pointing at a spectacular nothing in the opposite direction while we sped by the first cheerleader. All of a sudden Jed pipes up from the back seat in a scornful voice: "Why is that cheerleader pointing at everyone and doing her stupid gymnastics thing?" Lindsay and I were laughing too hard to bother reprimanding him for saying 'stupid.'
Well, now Jed understands communists and cheerleaders. Not bad for a six-year-old, I'd say.
And that, I might add, is all he had to say about that!
posted by Jill | 6:37 AM
5 Comments:
Hee hee hee - I am in awe of your clever tactic of "wildly pointing at a spectacular nothing." No wonder Jed is becoming so clever! :)
What a good family man you are :-)
So is Jed planning to quit the minutemen and join the NATO forces? :)
a zillion points for using "scintillating" in a sentence :)
Oh my GOODNESS! I am so impressed/amazed with Jed's historical/political/ideological curiosity/intelligence/hankering...
( Hmmm...can I possibly use some more /s here?) Viva la Jed!
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