… uphill both ways

conversing with a six year old:
kid: what kind of games did you like?
me: oh, monopoly, clue, stuff like that.
kid: on playstation?
me: no, we didn’t have playstations.
kid: on computers?
me: we didn’t have computers.
me: we didn’t have video games, we didn’t have computers, we didn’t have cable tv. we had three channels and we had to get them with an antenna on the roof. sometimes we couldn’t get them.
kid: … what did you do?
me: we read books.
kid: oh. i guess you were really smart.
me: yeah …

2 responses to “… uphill both ways”

  1. dan

    Heh. Still are…

  2. j. brotherlove

    That’ll learn ya to speak to children.

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