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Monday
Jun182007

Best sentence(s) of the day!

This is a real, completely not made up by me, sentence. It was said to me this very day over the telephone. Just now. I'm not kidding:

"I'm standing in a kiddie pool, talking on the phone, while a small child walks circles around me, carrying a chicken nugget."

Then, moments later: "Ooop. The chicken nugget's down.... Hm. How bad could it be if...? Oh, never mind. The nugget got stepped on."


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Context, please! :-D

Jun 20, 2007 at 1:12AM | Unregistered CommenterSean

Hi Sean! I wondered how much would translate. Here's more context, as requested:

Sis called me the other evening. She was outside with Mr. Pie. Saying things like "Hanging out with my baby is so much better than being at work...even though I like my job." The sun was shining, he was singing...etc. It was a great, great day. This child is so filled with glee at the world that sometimes it's a challenge to get him to actually eat anything. So you distract him with things like playing outside, and he's fine to eat a bite here or there. So she looked down and found the whole scene hilarious. Particularly in light of the fact that he's taken to walking these circles. Around us... around trees...around his toys, whatever. THEN he dropped his nugget in the grass. They don't use pesticides in their lawn, what with having a baby and all, and I gathered that for a second she was considering the pros and cons of letting him eat the nugget off the lush, green grass. (Not that she would have...mostly she was just in a great, happy, punchy mood, and I was typing everything she was saying...even the tongue-in-cheek stuff.) Then he stepped on it and that answered that.

Have a great day!

Jun 20, 2007 at 8:41AM | Registered CommenterMelody

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