Starting today, we'll be Bunniless for three days, while she's visiting grandparents. Last night she packed for herself, grumbling that her suitcase is too small, and pink. "Why is everything I own PINK?" she yelled. Well, because you Lived For Pink for a solid eight years and four months, that's why. Only recently has blue begun to break the long run of favoritism. I let her use a grownup's suitcase instead.
When she trundled back into the kitchen, she was so cheerful and proud of herself. "Name something you think I should be taking, and I'll answer 'check' if I packed it!" She made her dad and me play this game, separately, so she could get the most mileage out of it. It seems at age eight they get a little anal about life's details - theirs and yours, thankyouverymuch.
Anyway, she remembered all the normal stuff, but failed to pack any of the following: a circus tent, a motorcycle, a basketball hoop, and a butler. Drat! These suitcases are so frustratingly small!
If it's big enough to pack a viola it's too big and too evil...
Little known facts:
97% of all juvenile offenders commit their first crime within six blocks of a viola!
Those supposedly "safe" Childcare Centers and Summer Camps DO NOT check their employees for viola-related incidents!
Leading geneticists have maintained for years that there is no known DNA component for viola playing, therefore it must be either Satanic or Extraterrestrial in origin!!!
Posted by: Anthony | June 22, 2005 at 11:11 AM
Bunny could not wait for dad to get out of the door! "Don't you have to be somewhwere, DAD? I want to start playing with my gandpa right now!"
A far cry from the tearful 4 year old- I want my dada- response. This is kinda sad in a good way. I will always want to be needed like she needed me when very small. But it's good she has a lot of happy self confidence.
Posted by: BB | June 22, 2005 at 02:46 PM
They probably promised her VIOLAS, ALL NIGHT LONG! GOOD LORD!
Posted by: Jo | June 22, 2005 at 07:23 PM
Come to think of it, that's what we heard IN THE BACKGROUND when she CALLED! Quick, to the car!
Posted by: pam | June 22, 2005 at 09:05 PM
Boy Wonder informed us last week he wanted to spend the next three months with his Grandparents. In Latin America. And fly by himself. Without us.
We laughed so hard we cried.
The viola is like small children swearing. If you make a big deal of it, they are so going to want to use it EVERYDAY. :) Candidly, after spending way too much time in "Band" and "Orchestra" (I played 4 instruments, one of them Double Bass) I can tell you that any instrument is entry into geekdom. All instruments should be avoided. All. Those woodwind people THINK they are cool. They are not. nope nope nope
Posted by: Wende | June 22, 2005 at 10:13 PM
The Harmonica is only a gateway instrument to the much more serious Viola. Seek help.
Posted by: Jo | June 23, 2005 at 07:48 AM
I am so glad that after years (YEARS I SAY) of crying out in the wilderness against the evils of violas, people are finally starting to take me seriously. I feel exactly the way Jack Chick must feel: mocked by the uninitiated masses too blind to see the truth (except I have it on EXCELLENT authority--ie, Eris herself--that "Jack Chick" is an obscure Bulgarian dialect word meaning "all hail the lord of the alto clef")!
Trust no one.
Posted by: Anthony | June 24, 2005 at 01:34 PM
I di not do things like that. I didn't yell either.
(still the prettiest)
(I am, that is)
Posted by: bunny | June 25, 2005 at 07:05 PM