So, apparently, during a recent conversation, my youngest nephew asked my sister if I was really a bunny before I was human. I MIGHT have told him this. On my behalf though, I was trying to distract him so that he would eat his dinner, because he has a tendency to want to jump and run.
It actually went kind of like this.
ME: Didn’t your mommy tell you? I was a bunny. Eat a fry. And I had all kinds of brothers and sisters, and we would play in this big garden. One day… Eat a nugget. A garden fairy came along and turned me into a human and brought me here to be sisters with your mom. Eat a fry.
So, when my nephew, out of the blue, some months later, asked if this was a true story, my sister, who isn’t as prone to lying to her kids as I am, responded, “I don’t know. Do you think your Aunt Merzy would lie to you?”
Noah thought (probably not for long) and replied, “Yeah.”
Dammit man! I thought that story was rock solid.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
HA! this noah kid is hilarious. you tell lots of fun noah stories!
June 16th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Nephews can be fun… Right! But I do love it knuckleheads for some reason (damned mammalian biology!).
Several years ago, my brother brought the family up to Chicago. While we were at the Field Museum, the youngest doofus decided it was time to charge across the main hall. I managed to catch him in a one-armed grab which spun me around - his feet were parallel to the floor do to the centripedal force.
As we spun, his feet narrowly missed a little old lady (that the goon would’ve barreled into anyway).
As I handed him back to his mother (he got a whuppin’ as my southern uncles used to say), I told the older lil’ terror, “You two are the reason I won’t have any kids that live.”
Of course he had to ask, “But why?”
Scary thing? The older one is now a mechanical engineer at some aerospace firm in Texas…
June 16th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Noah is truly awesome for a little butt munch. No, he’s a cool kid. A little high strung, but definitely cool.
So, let’s see if I am understanding you Mr. O’Connor. You are using your nephew as a weapon for taking out little old ladies? That’s brutal.
A mechanical engineer - Very impressive. Especially for someone who was once a young child.
This totally goes against my theory that all people in highly skilled fields are actually alien life forms. Is it just me or is it hard to believe that any species that behave the way that we humans do in our toddler stage have a chance of being anything other than nudist serial killers?