Droplets
Driving home in the car, we parents talk over the chorus on the back seat – Goober Guy at 50 decibels times three – about how few people wear beards in the United States, or our part of the United States, very locally and quite recently, and whether or not this might differ from our old home, at a much older time, or not. Our findings are inconclusive.
After parking on the drive my daughter tells me that on my next birthday, she will be buying me a lifetime’s supply of earplugs, minus my current fifty years.
Which is when I hear the boys:-
“What is it, a bird?”
“Not a bird, they said beard.”
“What is a beard?”
“A beard is hair on your chin.”
“What’s hair under your nose being?”
“A moustache.”
“Like Mario?”
“Yes – but you can have both, a beard and a moustache, that’s called a combo.”
And the earplugs? Not a rush job.
June 7th, 2010 at 5:50 am
what’s a beard? that’s what hockey players grow during the playoffs
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June 7th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Earplugs are okay for dampening noise, but the textures are often unpleasant.
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June 7th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I love their conversations too!
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June 9th, 2010 at 11:57 am
A combo? I wonder what they would call a goatee?
June 20th, 2010 at 2:38 am
I favour silicone ear plugs now after trying out eleventymillion different types.
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