August 10, 2004
"I'm a Bad Person"
Little Dude: I'm a bad person.
Me: What? Why do you say that?
LD: Cuz I am.
Me: Why?
LD: Because I tried to touch the lizard.
Me: No, that just makes you a curious person.
LD: Are you sure?
Me: I'm sure.
After thinking for a moment....
Me: We are talking about a reptile, aren't we?
You can never be too sure these days.
Posted by DaGoddess at August 10, 2004 03:49 PMKids are so darned cute.
Protective mothers with active imaginations are even so darned cuter.
Posted by: Brian B at August 10, 2004 03:51 PMI'm not protective!
I just wanted to be sure we were talking reptiles. I like reptiles.
(I really, really wanted to be sure that he wasn't talking about the neighborhood sex offender, you know?)
Posted by: Da Goddess at August 10, 2004 04:01 PMDon't react like being protective is a bad thing. I didn't say *OVER*-protective, just protective.
Protective is good.
"Touch my kid and die" protective is good.
"No crossing the street alone" when he's 17, well, that's maybe pushing it a bit.
Posted by: Brian B at August 10, 2004 04:09 PMI'm about 7 months out from being a father myself. I guarantee you I'll be just as protective. I was being adoring, not condescending.
Posted by: Brian B at August 10, 2004 04:32 PMlol :oD very cute.
Posted by: munin at August 10, 2004 06:25 PMYou may need to do a little more investigation... maybe he tried to touch a lizard at school. Maybe a komodo dragon at the zoo...through the bars. Maybe there's a wild iguana living under your bed.
Posted by: David Kilpatrick at August 10, 2004 07:45 PMWell, let's HOPE it was a reptile! Otherwise the Little Dude is "growing up" a lot faster than you'd like.
Posted by: BillH at August 10, 2004 08:08 PMOne of the advantages of living in our house is that "touching the lizard" only makes me ask "which one?"...Of course, getting one of the stickbugs out gets more screams.
Posted by: PJ at August 10, 2004 08:28 PMCan't say I've ever heard it called a lizard. If he'd said "one eyed snake", I'd have worried, LOL!
Posted by: gw at August 10, 2004 09:28 PMI remember the guys and I sitting around the basement, leafing through somebody's dad's Playboy magazines and everything being spoiled when some guy got all worked up and tried to touch the lizard. We showed him though, we tied him up using a dog collar and leash, then stripped his pants off and spanked his bare ass! That may have been harsh, but it toughened him up; He now hangs out at the biker bar with these other biker guys. Heck, he even has his very own bachelor pad. A bit pricey, though. He has a roommate named Bruce, no doubt to cover the rent in that fashionable part of town they live in. But it must be worth it for a single babe magnet like him. While the other guys complain about their girlfriends or wives (or both), he never has any complaints about the ladies.
Posted by: Thomas at August 11, 2004 07:17 AM