Him: Did you know sloths move so slowly that sometimes they mistake their arm for a branch, reach for it, and then fall to their deaths?
Me: Sloths have arms?
Him: Yeah! Of course they do.
Me: Sloths don’t have arms.
Him: (disbelievingly) Yes, Mom! They have REALLY LONG ARMS!
Me: No, they don’t.
Him: Yes, they do!
Me: They do not.
Him: (patiently) Mom. I’m talking about SLOTHS. S-L-O-T-H-S.
Me: I know what you’re talking about. Sloths. Sloths don’t have arms. Do they?
Him: (exasperated) YES! Sloths have arms!!! S-L-O-T-H-S!
Me: Stop SPELLING it. I KNOW what you’re talking about! Sloths have arms? I never knew that!
Him: (disbelievingly) HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW THAT???
Me: I really think they don’t. I’ll have to look it up when I get home. That’s really interesting.
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You see, that entire time HE was talking about sloths, he saw this animal in his mind.
The entire time I was talking about sloths, and insisting he didn’t need to SPELL it out for me, I was seeing this animal in my mind.
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In my defense, they are both very slow-moving animals.
Yikes, now there’s a brain fart for you!! I admire your boy’s confidence in sticking to what he knew to be true. He’ll need that in life seeing as his mother is losing her mind. Lol.
Mind = lost loooooong ago.
Remind me to sloth you in the arm next time I see you.
Okay, but only after I’m done pulling sloths out of a wall from a crime scene.
So… What you’re saying is… Even if he spells it, the letters are meaningless. Very funny!
By funny, you mean I’m incredibly smart, right?
I have seen sloths in person and STILL my mind immediately pictured a slug, not a sloth. So I did it too!
THANK you.
Holy hilarious, Aliza! You made my day with that one. We have all been there, sister!
Heeeee. Son was in hysterics when the wires finally connected.
Well, now! There is a lot worser going on out there than confusing a sloth with a slug. (Wait – that sounds like you used a slug as a device to confuse a sloth!) Anyway, Mr. Santorum confused Obamacare with apartheid, and Ms Palin confused the national debt with slavery, so, in comparison, you done good!
That is 100% awesome.
I’m sorry, but neither of these animals is real.
I KNEW IT!
i pictured the first sloth in my mind; isn’t yours a slug:)?
Yes. That was my problem.