My nephew just turned 4 this past week. A party was planned for today, much like last year’s. It would involve water. There would be the water slide and once again I planned on being the only adult in there with the kids. I planned on bringing out the huge water guns again. Yep, there would be lots and lots of water. And there was.
It rained today. All day. Not just a little rain. A monsoon. Huge bolts of lightening. Hail (or so my sister claims). Instead the party was held indoors where my brother tried to get me drunk. Back in the old days when my mom was getting a little cranky, my brother would sneak wine into her soda. Well she had wine with the soda but he would attempt to up the ratio a bit. Apparently I am now the replacement.
Then there was the music. Oh, by the way, it seems the old vinyl records aren’t the only things that skip. It seems CDs can skip in much the same way. Anyhow there was this song on and neither my darling daughter, nor my brother, would tell me what something meant.
Later on, my sister called me over and was whispering to me, saying I should just make up words and then act like I have something over on Theresa. Theresa sees us conspiring and immediately runs over, demanding to know what we’re whispering about. “None of your business and get your kabunka off of me!” I told her.
“What the heck does that mean?”
“Oh, you don’t know? Gee, Aunt Janet knows. We all know.”
“You just made that up!”
“Did not. I guess you don’t know everything, do you?” I’m going to have to make up a few more words. Maybe even a few new expressions, too. That’ll teach those wise ass kids!
Editing this to say you have to read the comments on this post because I filled in more details.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:37 pm Quote
That will work until they google the word….it isn’t as easy to pull one over on kids anymore
July 27th, 2008 at 11:47 pm Quote
Google works for moms, too. This was the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdFsIRZEGm0
I had no idea what the heck they were saying. Once my brother repeated the lyrics, I still had no idea what it meant. Until I found this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dutchie
Now what I want to know is how the heck did Theresa know what that was. Unless she didn’t but was pulling my leg. Oh, and when they were all busy making fun of me, I turned to Frank and said, “Do something.” He half stood up & waved his arms in the air, starting everyone sitting at the dining room table into doing the wave. Only my family….
July 28th, 2008 at 12:55 am Quote
My mom made up a word and refused to tell me what it meant until my 18th birthday. I’d ask people, and they’d tell me, “I know what it means, but I can’t tell you.” Well, duh! No they didn’t know. I asked my mom about it shortly after I turned 18, and she admitted that she made it up. Lovely. Seems as though I should be asking her a lot more about my youth after the whole tv incident that I blogged about recently.
I love the urban dictionary. I’ve used it several times. When I taught, I used to have my students write one as a journal. Well, not a bad one, but a teenage-terms one.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am Quote
Too funny! And who can resist the wave?