A year ago tomorrow, I wrote about a humorous dinner conversation that had taken place. It is utterly uncanny that tonight's dinner conversation was so similar, and yet so much funnier. SO MANY times I had flashbacks to the conversation last year...
HT: Today at school we learned about Benjamin Franklin.
me: What did you learn?
HT: We learned that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity.
JR: (flashbacks begin) Benjamin Franklin invented the light bulb.
me: No, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
JC: (flashing back again!) Benjamin Franklin is dead.
me: What is it with you and famous dead people? (JC just shrugs)
JR: Dad, did you know that there was a president who was elected twice but not in a row?
Husband (from the next room): Garfield.
me: No, it was Grover Cleveland who was elected twice but not consecutively.
HT: Abraham Lincoln was elected twice.
me: Yes, but that was twice in a row.
JC: Abraham Lincoln died when someone shot him.
me: Oh good grief.
JC: How did George Washington die?
me: Again, what is your fascination with famous people dying?
Husband: I think George Washington died from the flu.
JR (deciding to change the subject AGAIN and move on to his new hairstyle, which, by the way, I think looks ridiculous): A lot of people at school think I look like Elvis with my hair.
me: I think you look like Eddie Munster.
husband: I think you look like Pat Riley.
HT: He looks like Elvis.
JR: You don't even know who Elvis is.
HT: Yes I do. (dramatic pause) Elvis is one of the chipmunks. (Needless to say, my husband and I burst out laughing at this point).
me: No, the chipmunk is Alvin.
husband: Elvis is a rock star from the 50's & 60's.
JC: Elvis is dead.
Ah, and so the conversation basically comes full circle. I'm telling you, you can't pay for entertainment like this!
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