Click here to view old videos.Kids Say the Darndest Things
I was taking pictures of the wildlife at a pond not too far from my house the other day when a young boy approached me on his bike. He looked about five years old – give or take a year. When he started talking, I thought he was talking to himself, but soon realized he was talking to me. I know kids can sometimes say some pretty crazy and funny things, but I was totally not expecting what came out of this kid’s mouth.
As he rolled toward me on his training wheels, the kid looks at me and says, “I just got this bike on Sunday, and I’m already a professional.”
I looked at him for a second with a blank expression. I had to repeat what he said to me a few times. And then I laughed.
Where does a kid get that sort of language? Did I say funny things like that when I was five?
I get that from a nearly 5 year old all the time.
March 18, 2009 @ 4:53 PM
Really? I guess I just don’t hang around enough kids to hear things like that, so I am always surprised.
March 18, 2009 @ 5:01 PM
Did you say funny things like that when you were five? No! Because you didn’t learn to talk until you were eight!
March 19, 2009 @ 11:45 PM
I have to agree that I hear that stuff all of the time – especially since I have a kid, but that doesn’t mean you should have to be jaded by their remarks either.
A couple of years ago on Valentine’s Day, when my child was three, he consoled me on that day promising that because I didn’t have a girl to love me, that he’d buy one for me.
I’ll never forget that. I’ll remind him never to break promises again.
March 26, 2009 @ 2:08 AM