Down South

After I had dragged SML to Thanksgiving Point on Saturday afternoon, I suggested that we stop into the notably large outdoor-gear store, Cabelas. We didn’t last very long inside because the men in that store had on their angry faces and we weren’t much interested in posing with dead animals. At one point SML exclaimed, “I think those people are polygamists!” When I asked him why he said, “Because they’re so ugly.” C’mon, Brigham Young wasn’t that ugly.

“What’s cooler than being cool”

At a Wednesday night birthday party, SML left me alone because an entire group of people surrounded him and began to ask questions about the iPhone. There is definitely no question about it: Having an iPhone makes you the coolest person at the party. Eventually SML’s mother came over and said, “You could take yours out to be cool too if you wanted.” But I want people to like me for me.

Fiddle, Faddle

On Thursday afternoon I had a goodbye lunch with some of my favorite female co-workers at the Fiddler’s Elbow in Sugar House. It was one of the moments where you feel slightly ganged up on by the opposite sex, because I was the only guy surrounded by about nine women. Our conversation centered mostly on IKEA, SML, and sometimes wandered to teachers sleeping with their students. I’m really going to miss those guys (ladies).

“That was cool!”

On Thursday night during the credits to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix SML said, “I liked the guy whose powers came out of his staff when he banged it. That was cool!” I felt both bewildered and turned on when he said that and a little bit of pee came out when I laughed.

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