My daughter had absentmindedly left her sneakers on our kitchen table. "That’s disgusting," my husband grumbled. "Doesn’t she realize we eat off that table?"
Then he went out back to work on the car. I cleaned the table and left to do my grocery shopping.
When I came home I couldn’t set my bags down anywhere. Sitting in the middle of the kitchen table was a car muffler.
Dad: "Say daddy!"
Baby: "Mommy!"
Dad: "Come on, say daddy!"
Baby: "Mommy!"
Dad: "Darn it, say daddy!"
Baby: "Darn it, Mommy!"
[Mom comes home and joins the conversation.]
Mom: "Honey, I'm home!"
Baby: "Darn it!"
Mom: "Who taught you that?"
Baby: "Daddy!"
Dad: ...
A junior-high student was studying astronomy and enjoying it greatly.
One morning at breakfast she mentioned, "On Friday we're having a quiz on the moon."
Her little brother piped up, "Are you gonna let her go, Mom???"
Sign at a fast food place: Eat, or we'll both starve!