Sunday, February 8, 2009

You and Me...

The curtain opens to a mother and child in a party store. Gwen Stafani’s voice can be heard piped in over the sound system.
Child (T): Mama? What’s that girl singing about?
Mother (S): She singing about how she misses her friend.
Child (T): She misses her friend? Why she misses her friend?
Mother (S): Because they’re not spending as much time together as they used to.
Child (T): Why don’t they just have a play date?
Mother (S): They tried that, but they aren’t getting along so they decided it would be better if they didn’t have any play dates for a while.
Child (T): She sounds sad.
Mother (S): She does, but she’s gotten over it.
Scene fades to black...

9 comments:

Fear and Parenting in Las Vegas said...

Nice explanation. Gwen couldn't do it better herself for little Zuma!

The Dotterel said...

I think that should be set to music!

Lora said...

Friday night Dave and I were driving Jake over to Jersey to spend the weekend at the grandparents and this song came out and we were totally belting it out as if it were 1998 and we were still cool and instead of going to drop the brat off we were going to a nice long summer shore weekend.

Jake says: what is this you are singing? it doesn't make sense. don't speak!... don't sing!

i love small world weekends.

Kimberly said...

Gavin Rossdale could get me over pretty much anything, too. :)

Tattooed Dorothy said...

What a great explanation! I'm so impressed!!

My students ask me random questions all the time and I'm not so great at being on my toes with great answers like you!

Jen said...

how insightful!

Dana's Brain said...

Love it! Can I have my kids phone you when they need astute answers to their questions, please?

for a different kind of girl said...

...and then she met another friend and that friend was very, very nice (and quite cute)!

For Myself said...

Them's some nasty wriggly worms in that there peach. gag.

But I loved what you wrote - as usual. Calm and cool.