Huh?
August 22nd, 2007 by Sonja

Here’s one for the “Things the Brain Does That I Will Never Understand” file …

So … in preparation for our last trip to Vermont for the summer (okay, our second trip), we’re getting the laundry done.  I assigned LightGirl the task of sorting and folding the socks.  This has not been done for quite some time in our house.  We do not place a high priority on matched socks.  Especially during sandal weather.  Most of them are white, so … there.

While I folded other clothes she treated me to a litany of where the socks had come from and how they had passed from one family member to another.  The girl knows the provenance of our socks for heavens sake.

This is the same girl who cannot learn her times tables or how to spell to save her life.  She is 13 and I regularly get hideously mis-spelled e-mails from her.

But she knows the provenance of socks.  Socks.

She claims this will stand her in good stead when the great sock monster rises up to take over the world.  She will know how to defeat him.  In the latter days times tables and spelling will do no good, but the provenance of socks will be her weapon against powerful evil.  So may it be.


6 Responses  
  • Erin writes:
    August 22nd, 20076:51 pmat

    I can’t believe that my boys can beat every video game they bring into the house but can’t figure out how to rinse a dish.

           
  • Julie Clawson writes:
    August 22nd, 20077:40 pmat

    or the husband who can debate philosophy and theology easily but who freaks out if I ask him to make mac n’ cheese for our daughter (come on! the instructions are on the freaking box…) But anyway…

           
  • Che V. writes:
    August 22nd, 20078:40 pmat

    or a son that take his bike apart, put it back to together again, to work even better…but can’t figure out how to start the washing machine..

           
  • Erin writes:
    August 22nd, 20079:49 pmat

    or the husband who can run an entire accounting department, but can’t buy a gallon of milk because there are too many *kinds*.

           
  • Patrick writes:
    August 23rd, 20078:02 pmat

    Men are selectively intelligent. It’s an evolutionary trait to help the laziest also retain power.

           
  • Sonja writes:
    August 24th, 20077:54 amat

    Geez, Patrick, are you saying my daughter has a man’s intelligence? Hmmm … this could be good, or … not. 😉 If she read your comment, she’d howl with laughter because I’m always teasing her that she has a lazy brain. So … go figure!!

           


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