Ah, random access memory, how sweetly you hand me weirdness.

[elbales]

Starring Me, aged 4, walking down the driveway of my preschool hand-in-hand with my mother and dangling my stuffed Winnie-the-Pooh from the other wee fist. Mom is talking with the daycare lady.

E, looking up at Mom: Pooh Bear's a fucker.

Daycare lady: *dies of mortification*

Mom: Well, I don't think that's a word we want to say, honey.

E, blissfully oblivious: Okay.


Memory ends, for which we can all be grateful.
 

Comments

[psybelle.livejournal.com]

*Hee!*

Apparently, I learned my very first word after my mom burnt a pan of cookies... but after that, I was a "cute" kid who did things like put my balance in my pocket so I wouldn't lose it.

[psybelle.livejournal.com]

whoops - shoulda used this icon instead, it being the word in question.

[elbales]

Heh.

(Is that a joke about the balance? I mean, an old-chestnut sort of joke? I've never heard it before.)

[psybelle.livejournal.com]

Nope... I was young, at the stage where I was taking language pretty literally; and had heard once too many times that I was going to "lose my balance" from doing things like walking along the edge of a curb as if it was a balance-beam and decided to do something about it. I have no idea what it was I actually tucked into my pocket, but I didn't fall...

[elbales]

You're right, that's cute. :)

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

Now I have this image in my head of pooh bear as a womanizing pimped out playah...

[elbales]

Dude. Dude. That is so wrong.

(But I'm still smirking.)

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're the one who said he's a _fucker_... it's _your_ fault ;-)

[elbales]

*does not dignify this with a real reply*

[roshismomma.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha cute baby E story.

the whole reason I try to not make a big deal out of it when the kids experiment with "bad" words, lol, is that they usually don't even mean anything bad by it... that, and I think making it "forbidden" makes them say it more.

[elbales]

Yeah, my mom wasn't upset because she knew I had no idea what the word meant. The daycare lady was still mortified because I'd heard it at her center, though.