Road Apples: girls night out

April 05, 2006

girls night out

The wife was busy with something at her school and I was beat from a long day at my school. The last thing I wanted to do was fix dinner. It was a perfect time for an impromptu night out with my daughters at the local gyros stand. The food was good and the conservation was even better. While we were waiting for our food, my youngest daughter had to prepare invitations to her birthday party. After the food came, the topic turned to school.

"So how are things in school? Uh, Erin, if you want some soda, order some for yourself and leave mine alone."

"I love Biology dad but the teacher drives us crazy", said Breanna, the oldest.

"Oh really. Tell me more."

"Can I get a cookie for when I'm done", asked Erin.

"Get three", I replied. I didn't need the calories but I was caught up in the moment.

"Mr. Findley must be two hundred years old and he talks really soft and slow. He is always playing these films from the fifties. It has boys with rolled up pants legs and girls with weird hairdos. I swear I have to hold my eyes open like this to stay awake sometimes."

This was one of those moments a father waits for - a chance to impart some wisdom to his young and I was not going to blow it. I put down my fork, wiped the corners of my mouth, put a very thoughtful and serious look on my face, and prepared to say something very profound.

"Honey, Mr. Findley is a very fine teacher. He has many years of experience and you are lucky... hey where did my French fries go? Erin!"

"Yeah, yeah dad. Can I go to the jam fest on Friday night?", Breanna asked.

"We'll see. Did anybody see where my cookie went?"

Posted by roadapples at April 5, 2006 07:26 AM

I read this yesterday but didn't comment. Fun with kids, eh?

Came back to look at the code and I'll be stealing it. Yep. That's what I do. Put out the crayons and then wait for someone to figure out how to use them - to do something really cool.

Laughing. Nobody told you that part. I'm known to be a thief ;-) of expanded examples (translate to when someone figures out a cool way to do it then I just steal it).

Posted by: meg at April 9, 2006 01:44 PM

and after meg packages it real nice and clear to copy and paste, it's mine!

Posted by: kim at April 9, 2006 06:18 PM

Help yourself meg. I only used what you showed me so it's really yours anyway.

Hi kim. Glad you stopped by.

Posted by: road apples at April 9, 2006 07:54 PM

Neat picture of your son.

Posted by: Tim Rice at April 11, 2006 07:12 PM

Hi Rapples. Hi Kim. I can't seem to get to talk to kim at all on kimnet. Nice story Rapples. My daughter Julz made Vietnamese rice paper vegetable rolls with prawns last night. Under instruction I prepared the dipping sauce - sugar, chilli, coriander, fish sauce, peanut paste all combined. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Tjilpi at April 11, 2006 09:58 PM