There's a reason (and then another reason) why this is the absolute perfect picture for this blog post, but I'll let you figure that out after you read this one.Every once in a while, my 4-year-old son, Sam asks to hear specific music in the car. Today he wanted to hear "Why Me Lord," from the new CD. That made daddy beam with pride of course, so I popped in the CD and we listened.
About 30 seconds in, he starts giggling. Here's how the dialogue went:
Me (turning down the music): "What are you laughing at, buddy?"
Sam: "That's so funny."
Me (thinking my kid is the only 4-year-old in the world who has an adept grasp of irony, but curious all the same): "What's funny?"
Sam (giggling): "Poo."
Me: "What?"
Sam: "Poo. That's SO funny!"
Me (thinking poo is actually really funny, but not understanding): "When did you hear 'poo'?"
Sam: "That kid who cleans your poo."(More giggling)
Then it dawns on me.
"... And the kid who cleans my pool just quit..."
Horrified and utterly repulsed at the imagery that my son has inadvertently extracted from my song, I start to explain to him what the lyrics really say...
Me: "No, Sam, that's not..."
Sam (interrupting): "I wanna hear that again!"
Why me Lord, indeed.
2 comments:
If I ever need a kid to do that, ahem, duty, I'd be upset if he quit too.
i have not seent his ipod contraption yet, but it is amazing
and your son is for sure funny - any more videos of him playing drums?
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