Tag: overheard
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That’s A Great Aunt
Ah, the legacy continues of spoiling and/or teaching a younger generation (that is not your own offspring) to do something with real annoyance potential.
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Family Gathering Guess Who
Pretty sure something similar has happened to me with other parents assuming our kids knew each other but actually we had no reason to be talking.
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Just Do It
I have started to experience these kinds of bizarre out-of-context sentences once again as my children have started playing Minecraft. “I covered my place in Creeper heads.” “Oh man, that’s creepy.” Yeah. It is creepy. As are the discussions about the pros and cons of killing livestock and villagers.
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Empathy For AI
Somehow it is more palatable to consider an AI as a less experienced person who will get better with time and not a machine that just doesn’t get it.
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King Kong Who?
Not that going to New York is a guarantee that you’re going to meet King Kong, or the Ninja Turtles, etc.
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Troll Fluff
Basically verbatim kid logic, here.
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Throw To First
Due to the still inconsistent throwing and catching abilities, running the ball to the base is actually a pretty good strategy in some of these young-kid games.
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Double-Edged Insult
Thank goodness one of these twins wears glasses or I’d probably mix them up more often.
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How To Make Partner
It would be nice to take credit for coming up with this joke, but I really didn’t add anything.
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Never Speak of This
In retrospect having take-your-kid-to-work-day scheduled during the school year only makes it that much cooler: you also get to skip school!