Did you ever watch that show "Street Smarts"? If not, it was a game show on late at night based on Leno's "Jay Walking." It's amazing the stupid things that come out of people's mouths. Actually, it's pretty embarrasing how dumb we sound sometimes.One night, hubby (before he was officially hubby) and I were up late watching the show while cramming for our torts midterm and cranking out our memo for legal writing. The host asked a contestant "What's the national mint?" And the woman says "Spearmint?" In a moment of pure genius, I look at hubby and ask "We have a national mint?"
He gave me the look. The "you can't honestly be that dumb" look. I got this look more than a few times this weekend.
Like after hubby said A&M was playing U Conn, I checked the bracket. "Wait a minute. This thing says A&M is playing Connecticut." (You know, it took almost a full minute for me to realize the brilliance of this comment)
After awhile my son got in on the action. I was getting a snack for him. I'm holding a banana in my hand and ask him if he wants...an orange. (He hates oranges) Andrew also gave me the look. Not just the look. He actually put his hands on his hips and screamed NO at the top of his lungs. Then he pointed at the banana and yelled "nana" with all the authority of a 15 month old who clearly knows better than mom.
I think mom needs more sleep
7 comments:
Thanks for stopping by.. and I do remember that show, lol. Is there really a mint for that?
I think we should all boycott work today and sleep all day. Let's start a national movement! Better yet, we can lay in bed all day watching Twilight while dozing off!
Crystal: not of the peppermint variety :)
Ms S: Sounds perfect! And kind of exactly like what I did today, except that I had a sleeping munchkin laying on me half the day
The sad thing is that when I was reading this and you asked if there was a national mint, I was right there with you. So your hubby gave me the look too.
I do stuff like that all the time. I have no common sense or something. You're not alone.
My mother could look at an appliance that has only two buttons, one that says "on" and one that says "off", and say,"I don't know how to use this thing"! LMAO, she's pretty smart, but just can't grasp some simple things.
That show rocked !!!
Blueviolet: So what did you think the national mint was: pepermint or spearmint?
Otin: Some days I'm like that too. Once I was all pissed off because I couldn't get my phone to work. It wasn't plugged in.
Dani: I know! The only late night game show I liked better was "Distraction."
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