Friday, July 9, 2010

a re-imagining of my parent's conversation this morning;

Dad: Good morning dear

Mum: Good morning to you

Dad: you know what I've been thinking?

Mum: that we've been much too lenient with the kids lately?

Dad: precisely, and I think the best way to combat this would be to use a 'smoke 'em out' technique

Mum: sounds very old school, I was thinking maybe we could yell at the girl one for a while, but in agreement with what she says, so she gets confused, and when she seems frustrated, thats when I'll put her on a big guilt trip for having irritation, which is clearly not a human emotion...it will be about 9.17 so she'll most likely have been yelled at by three different people at that point.

Dad: excellent, but let me take care of that, your job can be to open every window and every door in the entire house, we have about one million windows so it will be almost impossible to close them all!

Mum: good thinking, the combination of us living right next to the ocean and her need to shower will aid us! I'll go put on a load of towels so all the hot water runs out, and even so, she'll have to dry herself with a t-shirt.

Dad: great thinking...oh, and you know that grapefruit in the fridge? She's been strutting around like she owns that grapefruit lately. Lets let her know how little she deserves that grapefruit even though she only eats one meal a day.

Mum: I'm so glad I married you and had children, this is much better than terrorising children in the park, it's like a 7/11 of venting my feelings!

*both cackle evilly*