oh, fiddlesticks!

so today . . . i am reposting my favorite myspace blog of all time. that's maybe not saying a lot, since i only blogged a little over a year there, but still . . .

this is the very first blog i ever wrote, before i even knew about internet blogging! but interestingly enough, you will notice how it starts . . .

part of the humor from the story comes from the fact that the punchline was delivered very innocently by a very quiet little boy who has wonderful, calm, loving parents. but that just made it all the more unexpected and hilarious.

this was originally written on friday, may 25, 2007

So today I was reading a story to my class of kindergarteners. It was a funny book about a family of foxes and part of the fun was that most of the words began with the letter "f." But to make this work, there were a lot of words that were somewhat obscure and unfamiliar to the kids. They kept stopping me and asking "What does that word mean?" At one point someone asked what the word "fiddlesticks" meant. I was trying to explain that it was an expression someone might use, for example, if they were frustrated. One little boy frantically waved his hand in the air and said, "You mean like 'oh crap'?"

i couldn't help myself. i laughed. and then i said, "yes, exactly like that."

i find it hard to believe that either of his parents would use that particular expression, but obviously he had heard it somewhere. if parents only knew half of what their little darlings tell their teachers . . .