A couple months back I was watching "Remember the Titans" on TV. It's based on the true story of two schools, one black one white, which are closed down in 1971 and the students all integrated into one and focuses on how the relationships and trust have to develop between the black and white players on the football team. My 11-year old was watching some of it with me. Kids, unless of course TAUGHT to discriminate people who look different from them, he didn't understand why alot of white people in the movie were angry. I tried to explain to him segregation then, he still thought they were a bunch of morons and we continued to watch the movie. Throughout it, every once in awhile he would say outloud OBAMA! After about the tenth time, I looked at him and asked,
Me: "Do you even know who Obama is?"
Him: "Yeah."
Me: "Who is he?"
With the best "mothers don't know anything look on his face" he says, "A boxer!"
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One night as hubby and I are cleaning off the table after supper (kids have retreated to the dungeon a.k.a the basement) hubby says if we don't have any plans, he thinks he will go lay on the couch and watch a movie.
Me: "Whatcha gonna watch?"
Unbeknownst to us, our 15-year-old had come upstairs and was just coming down the hallway towards the kitchen......
Him: Gonna watch Borne, wanna watch it with me?"
Her: ACKKKKK!! OMG PORN!!???? OMG MY EARS! I SO DIDN'T NEED TO HEAR THAT!!
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Being pretty tight with the purse strings, when things go on sale that we normally use, I tend to buy a few to have on hand cause there is no damn way I am paying full price when I know it will likely go on sale a couple weeks down the road for about half! This is definitely the case for toilet paper. Sobeys had a brand on we normally wouldn't buy about a month ago, Charmin Ultra Soft double rolls. After my son plugging the toilet AGAIN last week (he has this thing about toilet paper), the topic came up after supper.
Me: "Hey John? Can you plunge the toilet? "The Boy" plugged it again and I tried but the damn thing is blocked right up! I can't budge it!"
Him: "It's no damn wonder! Using that toilet paper is liking wiping your ass with a blanket!!"
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The abovementioned 15 year picked up some tickets for a concert she is going to in a couple months. Being a teen, she of course purchased the floor seats I told her I wasn't comfortable with her buying, so hubby was going to call Harbour Station and see if we could turn the tickets in for ones with assigned seating.
While flipping through the white pages of the phone book,
Him: "I don't know why the hell they can not put it in here under H-A-B!"
Me: "Try H-A-R, since it's Harrrrrrrbour Station, not Habour Station" (No, he isn't from Jersey!)
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While discussing a mutual acquaintance who is not "well loved" by his inlaws, I mention that I've never found him to be mean or not nice, I just think he is a quiet person, who isn't into being phony by kissing up to people he isn't comfortable around (like really, how can you be comfortable around people you KNOW do not like you?)
Husband: "I like him. He's a nice guy. He just really likes his smokes, booze and pot."
Me: "He smokes dope?"
Him: "They both do."
Him: "I think she smokes it for pain. He does it for the moral support!"
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God I love my family!
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