My granddaughter is a very bright, cute, and intelligent three year old child. Nevertheless, even I, as a very doting and indulgent grandfather, must admit that she is something of a drama queen.
For example, when I recently took care of her one day because her preschool was closed and her mommy had to go to work, and even though she had a perfectly good time going to the library with me and then to the playground, and then she had a perfectly nice lunch and went to the potty successfully all by herself and went down for her afternoon nap without any trouble, when she woke up at 4:30 pm and saw her Grandpa, she started screaming, "Mommy! Mommy! I want my Mommy," without any thought of how that made her poor grandfather feel, and screamed without any cessation until 4:30 when her Mommy came home.
Remarkably, on a week night a few days later when Grandpa came to visit, he heard Random Granddaughter screaming at her Mommy. She was screaming because she had refused to take a nap at preschool because the older children (four and five years old, weren't taking naps), and whose fault was that?
Furthermore, when she heard Grandpa knock on the door, she screamed even louder because Mommy insisted she finish putting her pjs on before she went down and answered the door to let Grandpa in, the very same Grandpa who wasn't good enough for her a few days before. When she finally did come down with her pjs on to give Grandpa a hug, he said, "You really are a drama queen," but then he went outside and knocked on the door again so she could let him into the house again.
But then she is only 2 and 11/12ths of a year old. Maybe when she really reaches her third birthday she will stop being such a drama queen, though Grandpa is not holding his breath. But Grandpa is a very indulgent Grandpa because that's in the grandparent job description.
Grandpa is not so sure he feels like being so indulgent with some of the other drama queens he notices, especially around Christmas time. He calls them the Christmas drama queens.
Some of them are Christian drama queens. Some of them are atheist drama queens. Grandpa is a radical agnostic, but he figures there are probably agnostic drama queens as well.
Some of the atheist drama queens see a Christmas tree in a public place and have a tantrum. Some of the Christian drama queens see a public place without a Christmas tree, so they have a tantrum.
Sometimes a Christian goes into a department store and hears a clerk say, "Seasons Greetings." On the other hand, sometimes an atheist hears a department store clerk say, "Merry Christmas." In either case, the customer sticks a lower lip out and sulks. When Random Granddaughter does that, Grandpa tells her a little bird is going to build a nest on it. When a store clerk says SG or MC to him, Grandpa smiles and greets him back with appreciation.
Actually, when Random Granddaughter turns three, Grandpa will probably give her another year to learn to get over herself. However, Grandpa is not sure how long he needs to give the supposedly atheist and Christian grown-ups to get over themselves and appreciate the fact they live in a free society that doesn't burn them at the stake for being drama queens.
Because sometimes Grandpa is tempted to start collecting kindling.
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Either that, or I'm going to burn you know where.
Joanne, in regard to our granddaughter, Mrs. Random and I proudly say, that's our grandkid!
I'm not sure why an atheist parent should come unglued if their child becomes religious. What are we going to threaten with. You're going to go to a non-existent hell?
For that matter, I suspect that religion has little to do with people's values and morals. There are good atheists and bad atheists, good religious fanatics and bad religious fanatics.
I think people should keep their eye on the ball, not swing the bat at people's heads.
I had a similar 'poor me' experience yesterday. My granddaughter begged to leave my house. This is what school does to kids. This adorable child who thought I was her best friend before she started school now has other friends, one of whom promised to "call her on the phone" last night and break her grandmother's heart. (Actually, I thought it was kind of cute - I'm just being a drama queen.)
That doesn't flow off the tongue as well as the popular definition.
But I must admit that does conform to your random moniker.
Wait a minute, how can random have conformity.
I am leaving, got to get aspirin.
If I cause somebody reading my articles to need to get an aspirin, I feel I have performed my duty for the day.
with a whine through his nose and drama pronounced more like 'am' than 'awm'
It's one of those wierd family false accents we all became afflicted with due to Peter Sellers.
Such as Minky.
Chompanzee minky, yew fewl.