Flea and I were in the car this afternoon, driving home after a trip to stock up on Diet Coke and carpet shampoo (if my Mother asks, it was Flea who spilled an entire bottle of Baileys on my bedroom floor).
I was in a world of my own, wondering whether I’ll ever be able to go into Booths again after Flea told the check-out guy: “My Mummy says you can just take clothes out of the laundry basket if you haven’t got any clean ones in your wardrobe”.
I’m calculating the relative distance of Morrisons and Tesco from our house when Flea pipes up from the back seat: “Mummy, why do some DVDs have us on them?”
Weird question. “Well, because we make films on the camcorder, I suppose,” I say
“No, not those DVDs. The other DVDs,” she said.
O-kay… “What other DVDs?”
“The ones with US on,” she says, using her newly-discovered my mother is a moron voice. “What ones with us on?”
“Not us!”
It’s all getting a bit much for my brain to deal with. “What??”
“Not us, the DVDs with us on them!”
“What??” Think logically. “Okay, so can you give me an example of a DVD with us on?”
“Not us, US. Stop joking me Mummy! You're joking me!”
“Right, I have no idea what you’re talking about, and I’m trying to reverse into the garage, so if you could just shut up for a minute, that’d be great,” I say, through gritted teeth (positive parenting in action).
“I was only asking…” says a plaintive voice in the back of the car.
Now I feel guilty. I stop the car. “Right, so you want to know why some DVDs have us on, but they’re not the ones we’ve filmed, right?”
“Right.”
“And do all the other DVDs have us on or just some?”
“No. Just some have us on them.”
“So it’s not us. Is it someone who looks like us?”
“No! It’s a triangle with us in it.”
Finally, the light dawns. I expect you all guessed a good 10 minutes before me…
Bloody phonics.
I was in a world of my own, wondering whether I’ll ever be able to go into Booths again after Flea told the check-out guy: “My Mummy says you can just take clothes out of the laundry basket if you haven’t got any clean ones in your wardrobe”.
If I read much thats funnier than that this year, I’ll be well pleased 🙂
Oh dear! I might be laughing just a little too much…..
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Kids don’t you just love em. I’m with Alex funniest thing i’ve heard in a long time and i have a few funny girls of my own!! For what it’s worth i totally agree with you…just give em a good shake and well what else is febreeze for???
My boys think it is OK to just turn it inside out!!!!
Funny. She’s a bright kid! Whatever will she ask next?!!
I bet you felt bad afterwards.My then 3 year old was asking for an Itchy wow wow last year for weeks.Then I realised she meant Chihuahua.
I still haven’t guessed (sorry, being thick here). At first I wondered whether she meant U2, but I don’t think they have anything to do with phonics.
I live in the US, of course, but it’s not to do with that, is it?
Please put me out of my misery, here.
That is brilliant, I can picture you and Flea having this conversation as I have had similar ones with my kids. Kids just seem to say the most darndest of things just when our brains have switched off for a moment and before they have time to tune back in the kids are saying ‘mommy did you hear me?’
@WifeofBold – precisely. Febreze is God’s way of telling me it’s okay not to do laundry.
@Aly – Yes, perhaps telling her to ‘shut up’ was a bit harsh.
@Iota – in the UK, the certificate for children’s films is ‘u’ for universal, so it’s on the box in a triangle. Sorry, I forgot it wouldn’t make sense to non-Brits!
@Kellie – sounds familiar!
I love the ‘mum’s a moron’ voice – she is just in training for teenagerdom!
UGH I go through these sort of conversations daily, it’s so hard to remain nice.
Now I know why when they can’t do something the 1st time they freak out frustration is a powerful thing!
You know, since I read this on my RSS the other day it’s been bugging the hell out of me, asking people all the different ways to say Dee Vee Dee and thinking of what triangle goes with it to try and get the gag.
It’s only now I come to realise that it was the ‘u’ that was the gag and not DVD.
Me man. Me thick
Don’t feel too bad, I didn’t get it for AGES.