"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
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Wednesday, November 12
I Stand Corrected
My four year old daughter has been taking quotability lessons from my wife. Last night she wanted to turn off the light in the TV room so we could watch a movie. But she's too short to reach the switch. Her solution? Stand on her baby doll's stroller. Now, when I was a kid I tried to stand on some sort of wheeled ladder, and as you might expect it shot out from under me, leaving me to drag my face down a concrete wall, which nearly tore my upper lip loose from my jaw. So I was a little concerned.
(Sidebar: Who the hell would make a ladder with wheels on one end? Even if it's a toy? God only knows how many accidents this thing caused. Hopefully the makers have been sued into submission.)
Since my daughter had a hairbrush in her hand (my wife loves getting her hair brushed), I thought that she could use that to flip the switch. So, as she struggled to climb on the stroller without it dumping her on her head, I said, "Why don't you just use the brush?"
She looked at me with a look I'm sure I've given my wife a hundred times, and in her most condescending voice said, "Dad, you can't stand on a brush!"
