Cherished Memory #503

Scene Setting & Characters:

One innocent Mommy, driving from point A, to B, to C, to (sigh)…on a Saturday morning with her then-six-year-old daughter in the car.

ACTION!

Kid: “Mom, you know Blah Blah, from my class? 'Blah blah says “X@!#XX!” all the time and so does So-and-So.”

Mom: “Really? Oh my goodness. I can’t believe kids are saying those bad words! What potty mouths!”

Kid: “And So-and-So also told his big brother to “go to X%$!@&!” at the playground!”

Mommy: “What? Oh my.”

Kid: “And Blank Blank called her sister a “^^&!!)D@”!

Mom: “Yikes Sweetie. That isn’t good. I wish people wouldn’t talk like that.”

Silence. Mom trying to think of a way to deliver a lecture about bad words without sounding lecture-ish.

Kid: “Mom?”

Mom: “Yes?”

Silence.

Kid: “Sometimes when you’re mean to me I call you some of those bad words in my head.” (frowny face, guilty look, about to cry lip-quiver over the admission)

Mommy: (Hold it. Hold. It. Nope. Not working.) Bursts out in laughter! And, before she can stop herself, says,"I used to do that with my mom too!"

End Scene: Cherished Memory #503