Two months ago I was working in a museum and witnessed the following exchange :
colleague (shows a picture) : do you recognize that cliff?
kid (excitedly) : yes it's Etretat it's where Daddy threw Grandma's ashes!
That motherfucking thick blank afterwards was priceless.
I was at a park once with one of my little cousins and there was a kid there probably around 3 with a girl who was probably around 6 or 7. I don't think I said a single thing to them but somehow they both ended up talking to me (the girl mostly to assure me that she and the boy were definitely NOT related, just in case I was thinking anything so distasteful).
By the end of it the little boy had cheerfully informed me his parents weren't together, he lives with his mom, rarely sees his dad (I got the impression this might be because the dad is a bit of a deadbeat), and also that he really enjoys going down the big slide, and his mom is inside at a wedding but she's not the one getting married.
Another kid I met (who also was a big fan of slides, so they have that in common), probably around 6 or 7, said hi first. Then he asked if what I was holding was cotton candy (it was). Everything about his demeanour immediately changed from casual to serious-as-a-heartattack as he looked me dead in the eye and informed me:
"You know if you eat too much of that you will get fat."
Not that I'm aware of, but then again I haven't had any cotton candy since that day (not an intentional thing it just hasn't been something I've sought out). Maybe this kid is onto something after all
colleague (shows a picture) : do you recognize that cliff?
kid (excitedly) : yes it's Etretat it's where Daddy threw Grandma's ashes!
That motherfucking thick blank afterwards was priceless.
By the end of it the little boy had cheerfully informed me his parents weren't together, he lives with his mom, rarely sees his dad (I got the impression this might be because the dad is a bit of a deadbeat), and also that he really enjoys going down the big slide, and his mom is inside at a wedding but she's not the one getting married.
"You know if you eat too much of that you will get fat."