The Crabby Lady » Conversations With My Children http://www.thecrabbylady.com Stupidity is its own punishment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:11:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Conversations with My Children: The Brightest Crayon http://www.thecrabbylady.com/2009/09/conversations-with-my-children-the-brightest-crayon/ http://www.thecrabbylady.com/2009/09/conversations-with-my-children-the-brightest-crayon/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:31:44 +0000 Deb http://www.thecrabbylady.com/?p=266 My son was in the top 10% of his graduating class. He is a National Honor Society Student. He has a GPA of 3.987.   All this means he is smart, right?

Recent conversations with my 19 yr old son…

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I hear a voice from in the kitchen, “Mom, who’s Teddy Gray-Hams are these?”

Thinking surely I misunderstood what he said, I ask him to repeat it.   He did.  I hadn’t misunderstood.   null

 

“What is the Stock Market?”   It’s on Wall Street.  It’s where they trade stocks.  “Where’s Wall Street?”

“How far is it to Washington?   The state or D.C.?   “The State.”  It’s on the west coast near California.  Why?   “I’d like to see the White House.”

While discussing his sister being in Army Basic Training and the things she was doing.  Your sister had to go in the Gas Chamber today.   “Why??  What did she do wrong?”  (He was dead serious.)

It scares me to think of what all they didn’t teach him in school. 

 

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Scene:  Sitting at my desk engrossed in work on the computer (staring at a blank blog page) while my 18 yr old daughter is sitting on the couch watching TV.  I’m still unsure exactly what show or commercial she was viewing, but apparently it had something to with men, which sparked the following conversation…

Daughter:  “Mom, is that true?  Does size really matter?”

[picking my jaw up from the floor]

Me:  ”Quality is always better than quantity.”  (ok…so I lied a little.)

Daughter: “You mean they can have more than one?!?!” 

At this point I smile, safe in the knowledge my daughter has made it through high school as a virgin.  Nobody could pull off playing dumb that good.  :)

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