Once upon a time, Simon would ask me how something worked, I’d start to explain it, and he’d zone out, change the subject, or just say “oh” if I explained too much.
Today our roles changed. He wanted to watch “Wild Kratts”, I chose yesterday’s episode from the DVR, and upon reading the description said,
“A lizard that walks on water! There’s a lizard that walks on water?”
To which Simon replied:
“It’s called a basilisk and it uses air bubbles between its toes to walk on water. It has to go really fast, about 5 miles and hour, to do it. But if a person wanted to walk on water it would have to run 25 miles an hour.”
To which I replied:
“Oh.”
I would have been happy to hear more, I was just too shocked to say much more. Simon loves “Wild Kratts” and remembers quite a bit of it—like the maximum speed of a peregrine falcon and that lions will prey on cheetah cubs—but I didn’t realize his retention rate was so high after a single viewing. Realizing this now, I have two predictions to make:
- He’s going to love zoo camp this summer;
- He’s totally going to be that guy in the future, the one who kills conversations by saying too much when asked a simple question.
And how do I know this? Easy:
- I married that guy;
- I am that guy… ok, gal, myself.
You guys may be “that guy” but we love you!
LOL!
Smiling. And I never thought you were obnoxious about being that woman.