Cheryl Schatz

Alison, I am so glad that others find this little clip as funny as I did. When I first found it, I had been having a sleepless night and I was up on the computer looking for video clips for our video projects as I was trying to make myself tired enough to get back to sleep. When I saw this clip the tears were rolling down my cheeks as I watched and I was chuckling so loud it woke my husband up. He thought that I was in my office bawling my eyes out and he was very concerned. He had to get up to comfort his wife and he was a little miffed that it was only a funny clip that was the culprit at disturbing his sleep.

It reminded me of the time when I was in a grocery store and my son really wanted me to buy him a chocolate bar. The one he wanted was called a Virginia bar but he read the name as a Vagina bar and he kept saying it louder and louder as I was trying to shhhhh him. I could have crawled right through the floor. Or the time that our family was introduced to my mom’s neighour’s new born baby. The baby was at least three months premature, and back then it was a miracle that he was alive. But he hadn’t developed quite right and his eyes were not in the front of his head as normal but rather more on the side of his head. So the entire family is looking at this little baby and my son pipes up “hey mom, the kid has a fish head”. We were all mortified and none of us said anything but we wished we could have crawled through the floor. My silence just made him get louder because he wanted to make sure that he was heard. Loudly he said ” I SAID, the kid has a fish head!” Today we roar when we remember the embarrassment that we all felt by the naive honesty of my son. We were all thinking the same thing, but he had not yet learned how to keep his thoughts to himself. How embarrassing!