Category — family

Okay, in reference to my previous post #10 this is the conversation I had with my five year old cousin 22 years ago. Let me set the stage, I grew up in Virginia and was home from college in Michigan for the summer. I picked him up from kindergarten and this was how it went down:

Me: Hey, Duckbill. (He wanted to be a paleontologist and is now a bomb detonator in Iraq)

D: You are supposed to call me Duckbill Platypus.

Me: Sorry, what do you what to do?

D: I just want to spend time with you before you leave again. Where do you go to school?

Me: Michigan, it’s another state.

D: Well, I’ll miss you again too but where do you go to school?

I have kept a record of this conversation for 22 years. I don’t know if it is as sweet as a “real” adult but at the time I loved it.