When I was little I have been told I said some pretty weird things, now when I say weird I don't mean the type of gibberish one might expect from a two year old, I'm talking things that no two year old is really ever caught saying because well lets face it, nowadays toddlers play with things like tickle me Elmo and things like that, but that again is not what I mean when I say weird.
I have memories of going up to a young boy while I was walking with my Grandpa, the boy was playing street hockey and I brought it upon myself to reassure him that he was playing hockey very well. My response to his playing hockey was "nice shot little boy" That story gets brought up at every family gathering at my grandparent's house, but that story is not the one that comes to mind when I say that I said things as a kid no Canadian kid with little outside influence would say.
As I mentioned before, I grew up in a fairly sheltered house, so when I said something that nobody expected, the response I usually got was one of confusion. In this case a lot of confusion. It's now that I reveal what this whole ordeal and backstory leads up to; there are home movies of me running around the house singing in Irish Gaelic. Yup no reason other than I'd heard it on a CD and decided that it was the thing I was going to mimic that day. The story goes that I was out in a restaurant and started belting it out and suddenly this person came up to me and started to try to speak to me as if I understood her. To this day I have no idea what I'm saying unless I put it through a translator.
some people just make me stop and think what the hell did you just say, best advice I can give you is smile and nod :)
ReplyDeleteIs that advice for me or the people I'm talking, to? Heck I find myself thinking in other languages sometimes and sometimes say things and realize nobody else can understand, I think they're the ones smiling and nodding half the time.
DeleteI can relate to saying weird things as a child.. My first word was not mom or dad like a normal kid. Mine was apricot! Probably a pretty rare first word hey? I guess each of us can be a little weird in our own ways.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to saying weird things as a child.. My first word was not mom or dad like a normal kid. Mine was apricot! Probably a pretty rare first word hey? I guess each of us can be a little weird in our own ways.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, my first word was disk, then my Dad turned into what he called a "sure fire sign of my future career path..." yeah no, doesn't look that way so far.
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