Saturday, September 27, 2008

Things I Never Thought I'd Say

When I was a kid we had a program for the Commodore 64 that was called, I believe, Silly 64. One of my favorite things about the program besides the "Don't touch me I'm not READY" that sent the uninitiated running out of the room, was the random quotes. My favorite one that made me cackle with glee, was some silly quote that read "Hey, keep your kids from playing in my garbage!" What I never thought is that I might actually have to say it.

So far, I haven't. But I've said close. My son is quickly heading for the big number four, much faster than time really travels and in that time I've yelled many silly things. Here is a short list.

"Don't kiss the lobster!" in the grocery store by the lobster tank.
"Stop kissing/licking the TV." No apparent reason for it. It's possible he likes dust flavor.
"Don't bite the dog!" and also "Don't lick the dog!"
"Do not put your food in your ear, hair, pants."
"Use your fork, don't eat like the dog." Seems the dog is a very bad influence on my son.
"Don't drink water out of the toilet!" Actually I've never said that, I made a bunch of weird angry noises. He got the point though.

There are more, some which even include the trash.

1 comments:

tom said...

Although it's not a highlight of my curriculum vitae, I have to tell you that I wrote the program called Silly 64. What can I say? I was a child, I was thrilled with my mighty new Commodore 64? It was just a little exercise in basic, but these sofware people treated me as if I'd done something of worth. I knew better. I'm glad it did something for you.