Saturday
Jul252009
When Good Neighbors Go, Um, Er, Gooder?
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 3:49PM | Mr Lady
In my inbox this morning, courtesy of my lovely neighbor Andrew who tries very hard to avoid public forums, and will now probably hate me:
Exterior establishing shot. A hot, dry sunny day on (the street I live on).
3of3 runs with a little soccer ball towards a tall, bald man watering his dahlias.
3of3: Anjou! I want to play with you! We can chase the ball. Don't touch it.
Andrew: Okay, I won't touch it. I swear.
3of3: Let's go, Anjou.
The intrepid duo run up (said street).
Andrew: You must miss your mom.
3of3: No. She's in Chicago.
Andrew: So, if she were in another city would you miss her? Like New York?
3of3: No, she's coming back in two minutes.
Andrew: In a few days? Next week?
3of3: Two minutes. Next week.
Andrew: I don't think you understand time, 3of3.
3of3: Oh my god! Two minutes, Anjou.
Reader Comments (25)
Love it! I can't wait for my little munchkin to come out with his own concept of time, its something I can mock him about for years to come!
Love the frustration at the end! Step up, Anjou!
Oh My God Anjou don't you know you DO NOT question the spawn of Mr Lady?
Sounds like Anjou is about to get a beat down.
Love it.
I die with the cuteness!
I think 3 of 3 is right on the money with this one. 2 minutes, next week, still too soon.
I thought you were on a one month sabbatical.
See I was just enjoying the quiet servitude of no Whiskey In My Sippy Cup posts on my reader. Being part of the WIMSC family requires a little works mind you keeping up with the energy of the Mr. Lady and all. And the only reason I hang in there is because, well, you’re so damned cute.
Actually, I’ve missed you terribly, honey. COME HOME!!!!
OMG 3of3 is the bestest and I want her to be my daughter's best friend. How can we make that happen?
Jeesh, Anjou, get with the program.
3of3 is clearly going to go far. That kid has chutzpah!
3of3 clearly knows better than all of us.
i mean really ... oh my god!!!!!!
that is just so super cute...two minutes works for me...lol
What a cute story.
Oh, dear, dear Anjou. Do you not know that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree?
You go away for a month and return with a post written by your neighbour?
Are you fucking kidding me? You couldn't even slip in a new tat pic or something?
Anjou is the idiot, which is obvious to all. Owen says, "That week." As in we went camping that week, we are going to pick up daddy that week. He has no concept of days, minutes, hours yet, and I love the ambiguity.
Clearly, Anjou has a lot to learn.
You know what the funniest thing about this post is? "Don't touch it." My own daughter does this as well and, annoying as it may be, it's even more hilarious. I.e. - "Daddy. Lets play bubbles! But you don't do them, I'll do them and you can watch, OK?"
This is so cute. Obviously, 3 of 3 is way more put together than the rest of us. I totally love her concept of time.
Apples and oranges, Anjou. Learn the difference. geez.
I must apologize for the slightly stuttery introduction I must have given you on Friday night. Holy balls, I was buzzin... Also, being quirky and funny in person isn't doesn't allow me a backspace button. I do love that backspace button...
I'm sure you don't remember, but after I rambled on and on about how "I don't gush over people I really admire! Blah blah out my ass blah blah!" I remembered that I kinda sorta did gush over YOU. Gah.
anjou! when i say two minutes i mean whatever the hell i want to mean.
now, do NOT touch my ball.
Totally cute! I wish us adults can view time in the same manner as 3of3 does. If only a week could be as short as two minutes, so carefree and innocent :) Thanks!
Geez I missed my kids while at BlogHer and my 7-year-old asked me when I returned why I keep going away so much? Interesting.....
And Tracey? That gushing thing...? It's a BlogHer phenom...it's totally cool. We all do it. And we forgive ourselves for it.... :-)
And if there's ANYONE worth uh, gushing over? It's this Mr. Lady chick here who rocks this blogspace.
hey! what happened with the tattoos? did everyone get tatted up? with the tats? i haven't heard ANYthing about the tats ANYWHERE.
i wish i'd met you drunkenly :D
3of3 and Monkey would be the best of friends ;-)
This is a great site you have here. I have a humor blog myself and I would like to exchange links with you. Let me know if this is possible. Until then, I look forward to reading some more of your posts. Take care.