Overheard and overseen

[resonant]

At Thanksgiving dinner: "It reflects and reinforces."
"Like duct tape!"



Kidlet: "I don't ever want to be the person whose job it is to run towards the screaming."

Kidlet's friend, carrying the kitten: "Look what the human dragged in."

"I want all the junk together, and I want it to stay in the same place all day long." -- the Hilarious Bastard, rejecting boxer shorts.

At Starbucks: "People who work here get strange drink ideas. Eventually I have to say, 'No, I am not steaming any more lemonade.' "
"Which was awesome."

Kidlet: “Who do they slash Loki with?”
Me: “Mostly his brother.”
Kidlet [considering]: “That’s OK, though. Gods don’t have genetics.”

"Argentina's good for two things: beef and Nazis."

"Nothing is weirder than boredom." -Barbara Sher

Kidlet: "K's baby sister is so cute. You wouldn't believe how cute this kid is."
Me: "Kidnapping your friends' siblings is against the rules."
Kidlet: "I know. Anyway, M already called her."

Kidlet trips over cat toy, says to underfoot cat: "Everything you touch becomes like you."

Kidlet with new iPod: "You know technology is advanced when the instructions for the thing weigh more than the thing itself."

"Carol, do you want to be the dungeon or the dragon tonight?"

"I don't know what I want my big-girl job to be."

"And they all have this spiritual little monkey-holding ceremony ..."

Kidlet's friend K: "One time I dreamed there were all these Beanie Babies and they were going around decapitating people."
Kidlet's friend J, excitedly: "I had that exact same dream except it was watermelons!"

"Does he work every day?"
"He doesn't work any day."

Comments

[greyeyes]

"Carol, do you want to be the dungeon or the dragon tonight?"

I love that. And I still don't know what I want my big-girl job to be!

Kidlet is hilarious and has good points.

[resonant]

I'd love to know the context of the dungeon/dragon comment, but it was one of those things that you hear over the shelf at Starbucks.