Daddy said
"If you argue too much when you're 5 years old, when you turn 6 your hair will turn yellow."
Bubba said
"No it won't."
Daddy said
"Yes it will. I saw it happen to a girl."
Bubba said
"Oh yeah, what girl?"
Daddy said
"A girl I used to know."
"What was her name?"
"Beulah"
"That's a made-up name. Where did she live?"
This would have gone on for hours had Sy and I not started laughing so hard we cried. You cannot pull the wool over Bubba Lou's eyes. No matter how hard we try to convince her chocolate is made of broccoli, or blueberries are just big rain drops, she never believes us. And I mean NEVER. It's impossible to fool her, she has a natural, built-in bullshit sensor (and she's happy to call you on it.) She knows what she knows and we cannot convince her otherwise.
She's going to grow up to interrogate prisoners. People will beg her to stop. They will confess all their sins just to shut her up. I can only imagine what's going to happen when she turns 13.
Sy and I have said (as I'm sure any parent of a girl has) that all you need to do to get prisoners or terrorists to confess is put them in a locked room with a few pre-teen/teenage girls (friends or not, doesn't matter) and only give one of them a cell phone. Set it to receive only, text only, no calls. People will give up anything to get out of that room.
"If you argue too much when you're 5 years old, when you turn 6 your hair will turn yellow."
Bubba said
"No it won't."
Daddy said
"Yes it will. I saw it happen to a girl."
Bubba said
"Oh yeah, what girl?"
Daddy said
"A girl I used to know."
"What was her name?"
"Beulah"
"That's a made-up name. Where did she live?"
This would have gone on for hours had Sy and I not started laughing so hard we cried. You cannot pull the wool over Bubba Lou's eyes. No matter how hard we try to convince her chocolate is made of broccoli, or blueberries are just big rain drops, she never believes us. And I mean NEVER. It's impossible to fool her, she has a natural, built-in bullshit sensor (and she's happy to call you on it.) She knows what she knows and we cannot convince her otherwise.
She's going to grow up to interrogate prisoners. People will beg her to stop. They will confess all their sins just to shut her up. I can only imagine what's going to happen when she turns 13.
Sy and I have said (as I'm sure any parent of a girl has) that all you need to do to get prisoners or terrorists to confess is put them in a locked room with a few pre-teen/teenage girls (friends or not, doesn't matter) and only give one of them a cell phone. Set it to receive only, text only, no calls. People will give up anything to get out of that room.
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