Gye Greene's Thoughts

Gye Greene's Thoughts (w/ apologies to The Smithereens and their similarly-titled album!)

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Not bleeding

Like a lot of little kids, The Girl likes wearing band-aids, for the placebo effect: you bump your knee, stub your toe, whatever: a band-aid makes it feel better.

However, despite having a band-aid on nearly every day (the specific location changes day by day), she must not have ever cut herself -- which is kind of interesting, given that she's four years old.

Yesterday she got a paper cut. Today it re-opened, and was bleeding pretty well. Instead of saying “I have a cut”, or “I”m bleeding”-- she said “I’m leaking”.


Which... is true.


Good use of language.


--GG

2 Comments:

At October 07, 2008 8:22 AM, Blogger slag said...

Although "leaking" can have a lot of different meanings.

PS Why don't you have a link to Older Posts at the bottom of your blog?

 
At October 07, 2008 12:37 PM, Blogger Gye Greene said...

Re: No link to older posts. Just haven't configured it that way, I guess. (Maybe it wasn't an option, way back, when I started.)

The workaround, of course, would be for people to go back to the main, ''live'' page.


--GG

 

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