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Just when things seem bad…my nephew picks me up :-) June 29, 2005

Posted by atharkhan in : Humor, Personal , trackback

Its been an interesting couple of days. My academic career is trying to set a new record for “Most Spectacular Crash and Burn,” I got a traffic ticket, my stupid ATM card has been turned off because the idiots at an online store tried to charge me FIVE times for the same damn thing — that’s the last time I ever buy a Microchip Controlled Rice Cooker! (Don’t ask!)

Anyway, the best part of my day as always is my conversation with my nephew. Regardless of day, date and time, our conversation is identical.

We don’t say “Hello,” or “How are you?” Instead it goes like this:

Him: what’s your fav-rit an-mal? (What’s your favorite animal?)
Me: You!
Him: No its Not!
Me: Yes it is!

By this time you can tell by our voices that we completely gleeful and trying our best not to laugh.

Him: No its not not not not not not…
Me: Yes it is is is is is is..
Him: Not not not!
Me: Is is is!
Him: Nooooottttt!
Me: Isssssss!

By this time we are both laughing!

Him: Not not!
Me: Is is!
Him: Hello Helloooo
Me: Hello Hellooo
Him: HeLLoooOOo HeLLoooOOo
Me: HeLLoooOOo HeLLoooOOo

What? You were expecting Shakespeare? :-)

Then I mix it up a little to throw him off…

Me: Knock Knock!
Him: Who’s there?
Me: Your uncle!
Him: Your uncle who?
Me: Your uncle who is going to come and bite you!!
Him: No youre not!
Me: Yes I am!
Him: Not not not not not…
Me: Yes yes yes yes…

Well, you get the picture. He is three and I am thirty. The funny part is that the only coherent sentence in that entire conversation is spoken by the three year old when he asks about my favorite animal. Ha ha ha!

So… this whole thing lasts about 20 minutes and then we are done. About an hour later, like clockwork, my sister calls me and our conversationg goes like this:

Her: “Are you the genius who wound up my kid?!”
Me: Not not not not…
Her: Okay, he is not eating his food and just keeps saying “not not not” so… YOU better…
Me: Okay, can I talk to him?
Her: Here…

Now this is the part where I somehow forget how to eat food.

Me: Hey, can you show me how you eat your food?

After a few “Not-Nots” he shows me how to eat food and things are back to normal. Heh heh… She lives over two thousand miles away and I can still mess with her when I conspire with a three year old.

Man… I love that kid :-)

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