Overheard

One of my favorite parts of my college's newspaper was the "Overheard" column--random comments collected by the newspaper staff and then inserted into the paper, purposefully with no context because, of course the lack context makes the comments even funnier, and often delightfully more suggestive. In homage to that profound formula, I think I will offer periodic "Overheard" snippits from my household and a little piece of my stream-of-conciousness that followed.

Here is a sampling from last night:

"Mom, I think you should be a priest."  --Um, okay . . . well . . .

Pouting 8-yr-old son enters house, shutting door a bit too loudly,"All they want to do is make mud pies and dig for worms" -- REALLY? That is a horrible thing for a group of boys to want to do.

"You know, bacon is really the best thing there is for you" --Honey, I couldn't agree more.

Mom to 8 yr-old wrapped in towel after shower dripping wet on the carpet, "Go get some underpants on silly" 10 yr-old brother added, "Yeah, because we don't want to see that." --Right. Because we never see that in a house of boys.