"Take chances. Make mistakes. Get messy." Ms. Frizzle, The Magic School Bus

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Our friend, Sally

Last month as we were leaving a playdate at Carl's Jr. playland (known to AKA as "the star place"), she saw a girl getting into a car, far across the parking lot and asked me, "What's her name?"

As if I would know...?


I gave the answer that I give to these such tough questions:

"I don't know."

(Incidentally, the one question where this answer does NOT work is, "Mommy, what does I don't know means?")

After a few more exchanges of the same question, same answer--she decided the girl's name must be "Sally."

Unwilling to try to explain that I don't have the superpower to know the names of strangers, and since we'd never see that girl again, I gave my standard response to non-question statements:

"O-kay."

Little did I know, that a month later...

we would still be talking about Sally.


"--just like that girl, Sally, at the star place--"

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