The other day my older son went to visit his father with his Grandma. When he came home he said "Mama, Daddy told me a great riddle. When is a door not a door?" I sat for a second and said "When it's a jar."
He looked at me totally stunned. "How did you KNOW that?" he asked. I looked him right in the eye and said, "Because I'm the Mommy, and I know EVERYTHING. Don't EVER forget that." He just stared at me, with a look that said he wasn't sure, but he wasn't going to take the chance.
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Later, as soon as I could get to the library, I did my research and took a book to the class and showed the student the encyclopedia. The The first words were, "No one knows exactly when the wheel was invented." I felt a bit better.
I have asked this question to many people to see their response. The response is always the same--a look of pain and shame.
That's so cute.
Mom did the same thing to Adam when we were kids. He and Kenny had been out "camping" on the tow path by the canal one fall... they'd had a campfire and everything. Mom smelled the leaves and the smoke on Adam's clothes and told him he was not to be lighting fires outdoors, and not to wander all the way to the tow path (a mile from our house... way too far for a 10 year old!). Adam's wide-eyed question, "how did you know" was answered with "Because I am the mom, and I see everything."
My favorite is still the story about the Gonads...
...but it sounded like such a great name for a race of aliens!
I know, and I think it IS, especially for one of those cheesy sci-fi pornos! I share that story all the time, although it loses something when you have to explain WHAT gonads are.
Yeah, but the look on the guys' faces was priceless!
I've no doubt about THAT! I've seen some interesting faces telling the story to...
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