Ketchup or…
I have the funniest kids. My 11 year old, in particular, is this quirky, offbeat little adult in a child’s body who says outrageous things that crack me up.
She’s definitely an intellectual (very high iq) thinks things over carefully and never forgets a thing.
She wants to be a medical examiner. Her favorite show is CSI. She loves snakes. And rats. And slithery things.
She also still plays with Barbies.
Go figure.
So yesterday, hubby and I are in the car with the two younger girls (11 and 15) and he starts rolling his eyes over the packets of ketchup, mustard and honey mustard littering the car (fast food junkie here…)
And I primly inform him that if I ever crash into a snowbank and am stranded for days, I can drink the melted snow and eat ketchup to survive and be quite happy, thankyouverymuch.
At which point the girls, in the back seat, start moaning and groaning, “Ooooh, raw ketchup! I’d never eat that!”
“Not even to survive?”
“No. I hate ketchup. It’ll be gross from being in the car. It turns all black and sticky.”
A pause.
“You know,” says Dad, “when you’re starving, there’s no telling what you’ll eat to stay alive. Remember the Donner party…they ate each other.”
And my 11 year old…
“Well, I’d eat people, as long as they were cooked. But not black rotten ketchup.”
The kid slays me.
Comment by Carly — January 29, 2007 @ 7:06 am
Leslie I would have loved to have set your face when she said that! I bet it was priceless!
Comment by Tina — January 29, 2007 @ 8:30 am
These are the times you wish there was a camera running constantly, so you can perserve the comments for later blackmail purposes.
Comment by ev — January 29, 2007 @ 9:12 am
LOL!! They do say the darndest things. My 2 year old is already leaving me speechless.
Comment by Kelly F. — January 29, 2007 @ 9:28 am
Leslie,
You have a budding comedian in the family
Love it.:doggie:
Comment by Gigi — January 29, 2007 @ 10:08 am
LOL, kids say the most peculiar things. I love how uncensored they can be sometimes (when they’re not being embarrassing). Makes me wish I wouldn’t be so cautious sometimes, but then again, adults don’t have the excuse of being too young to know better LOL.
Comment by Stacy ~ — January 29, 2007 @ 10:33 am
Leslie….your kids wouldn’t eat ketchup, but mine (6 1/2) would eat anything that falls on either the sidewalk or the car floor. geez, he’s like a regular vacuum.
I must confess my 4 year old is persnickity, though.
Comment by katie — January 29, 2007 @ 10:36 am
Katie, I just got a note you won my book at Romance B(u)y the Book! Congrats!!!
Comment by Carly — January 29, 2007 @ 10:38 am
I showed this to my 11yr. old grand (a big reader only as she informs me
she’s not much for fiction.)
Anyway she said Yeeww, she would never eat a cooked person without
ketchup. Who knew kids would consider eating people.
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Heck I had trouble getting her dad to eat vegetables.
Comment by jeannie — January 29, 2007 @ 11:09 am
When reading this my 13 year old who is home sick asked why I was laughing so I read your post to him, to which he replied, ” you can use the ketchup to write an SOS in the snow”
As I said you just gotta love the mind of a child!
Comment by Tina Martinesi — January 29, 2007 @ 11:30 am
Carly…thank YOU for the prize! Geez, I was floored when I saw the post yesterday….now, I have an autographed book from everyone, but Julie (I think I need to write more poems to her to get one!).LOL!!!!!
I had so much fun over at RBTB last week. I haven’t had a chance to post, yet, over there today.
Jeannie: didn’t you know ketchup is a vegetable like salsa? Seriously!:thumbsup2::thumbsup2::thumbsup2: That’s what I keep telling myself!
Tina: That’s actually a brilliant idea (the SOS in the snow). Seriously….it might take a lot of ketchup, though.
Happy Monday, Everyone…life is good for me (we are back in the normal routine!!! WHEW!).
Comment by katie — January 29, 2007 @ 12:29 pm
Hi Leslie:
Funny story.
My 12 year old daughter loves rats too. She had a pet rat for a while, but after it moved it on, I decided we had enough pets (we have 5 cats
and a dog :doggie
that we should wait a while before we get another.
Take care…….Wayne
Comment by Wayne (aka Trybble) — January 29, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
Too Funny! Have a great day.
Comment by Debbie — January 29, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
Leslie, funny story! I love the comments kids make, it just proves how right Art Linkletter was “Kid’s Say the Darndest Things”.
:love2: This was on my dads side of the family.
Hey Wayne, nice to see you here!
I just have to throw in that family rumor has it that we had an ancestor in the Donner party but I’ve never been able to find out her name. I stopped at the memorial when I was in that area but still didn’t learn anything!! She obviously was one of the survivors!
Comment by Donna M — January 29, 2007 @ 2:59 pm
lol…so glad to know I’m not the only one with, ahem, creative children!
Comment by Leslie — January 29, 2007 @ 6:49 pm
I just really love that kids are thinking about how they would eat other people to survive…with or without ketchup.LOL Thanks for the funny, I really needed the laugh.
Comment by Liza — January 29, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
Hi Leslie,
Comment by Cherylann — January 29, 2007 @ 8:35 pm