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Re: Story time

To: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
Subject: Re: Story time
From: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:51:53 -0700
ask Miss Judie (my wife) about the first vocabulary of our precious son
Aero....Aero
hangs out with dad.........later that day Miss Judie reports that she is driving
in traffic with Aero and he utters his earliest full sentence(s)......she says
"your
son spoke today"....really I say, he spoke?......yes she says, he loudly and
distinctly
said "Go! F---er go, go f---er go!" to the cars in front of us

ah a proud day indeed             Joe



Chuck Rothfuss wrote:

> Keith, List,
>
>    Since I'm not that old, I'm only gonna go back about 6 years with this
> one.  I doubt I've EVER done anything dumb enough to top Keith's story, but
> I'll have to think on that somemore.  Til then I thought ya'll might enjoy
> my favorite little "Redneck" story from Down East.
>
>    When my son Matt was 5 years old he came into the house one evening and
> asked, "Daddy, how come we always have slugs and rednecks hangin' out on our
> porch?"
>
>   I was obviously unprepared to give the child an answer to such a question,
> having just bid goodnight to several of my fellow local racers who'd been
> visiting on the porch, as they often do.  After recovering somewhat from the
> shock of hearing my son refer to my friends as "slugs and rednecks" I told
> him firmly that it wasn't polite to call them those names.
>
>    He shot back,  "Well, ALL the kids at school call them THAT.  WHAT am I
> supposed to call them?"
>
>    As visions of "ALL the kids at school" calling my friends "slugs and
> rednecks" burst into my mind, and knowing full well that kids get this kinda
> stuff from their parents... he continued...
>
>    "They have red necks that puff out like this!" (small hands moving under
> his chin)  The poor child become even more frustrated when I broke into
> laughter and nearly fell off my chair.  He was talking about real slugs,
> (the kind that leave slime trails) and the "rednecks" he was referring to
> were the many small lizards that eat insects near the porch light, and chirp
> by inflating the red skin of their necks.
>
> Chuck Rothfuss
> Teacher, Story Teller & Mechanic
> Pole Cat Hollow, NC

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