白目媽媽和她們的白目小孩
有一年 Yvetta, Janeta 和 Anita 的聚餐場合,Yvette 感嘆說:「真糟糕!雪莉家的冉皓皓溫文儒雅、知書達禮,我們家的小孩只會張口吐舌做鬼臉,家教太差了!」 Nita 立刻也來加一段自家的「個人故事」。然後,剛轉頭過來的Janeta 很興奮的說:「現在要比賽『沒家教』是嗎?」
這些媽媽到底怎麼回事?「互相漏氣求進步」?
我們家的小孩擁有太多carefree 的「照顧」,客人來了像木頭也就算了,一混熟就開始耍白目。現在大了一點,好了一些,想想還真感謝那些有耐心的老師。舉個例子:
大麻子唸小三的時候,有一次作業是「每個生字寫半行」,他老哥就將字拉得長長的,「每個字寫半行,兩個字寫一行」。(這家的爸媽從來沒看過小孩的功課,根本不知道他在玩什麼遊戲。)那一天老師在連絡簿上寫著:「YW, 老師的眼睛還可以,以後作業不用寫那麼大的字。」我們還稱讚小孩懂事!後來問清楚了,真不知道該哭還是該笑!只能怪自己把白目遺傳下去!
「你這樣欺負老師怎麼可以!」
「不會呀!老師笑得很開心!」
(想當然爾!他老兄連考試也都這樣「逗老師開心」,然後那種分數就不太可能讓大家開心了。)
我們平常對小孩講話都要很小心措辭:
「哥哥!去拉琴了!」(他就「拉著鋼琴」,「拉」得滿頭大汗。)
「你們可以安靜一分鐘嗎?」(忽然兩人完全安靜,讓我良心不安,才在反悔自己太兇,五十九秒過去,兩人開始故意大聲唱歌嘰嘰咕咕叫。)
「拿一張面紙給我好嗎?」「一張?」(很努力把面紙合起來的兩張分開!)
小提琴老師指著譜說:「拉到這裡!」「這裡?」(真的只拉到「這裡」,剩下一個小節不管,很誇張的把琴放下來。)
在車裡忽然兩人都不說話,問話也不回答。停紅燈轉頭,發現一個舉雙手、另一個放下雙手呆若木雞,盯著前方。「怎麼了?」沒回答!順著眼神望去,前方的車後貼了「內有幼童」的標誌。
旁邊的車閃過,嚇了 Yvette 一跳。
「媽兒個!跟他尬!」
「不要!他看我們一車老弱婦孺,等下發狠耍流氓就慘了!」
「也對!一車『老婦』『弱孺』,實力差很多。」
「爸兒個!這好不好看?」
「嗯!」
「嗯!」
「哦!我的爸媽『異鼻同聲』稱讚我。」
這種故事多到 Yvette 常常要反省自己基因!
昨天讀到一個『阿甘笑話』,終於知道我們家人的智力等級!
St. Peter: How many days of the week begin with the letter “T”?
Forrest Gump: Two! Today and Tomorrow!
St. Peter: Forrest! That’s not what I was thinking but… you do have a point though, and I guess I didn’t specify, so I give you credit for that answer. How about the next question? How many seconds are there in a year?”
Forrest: Gump: Shucks, there gotta be twelve: January second, February second, March second, April second, ….
下一篇:陳家小寶貝
I don`t have to be a dilligent housekeeper. I raise pigs. That`s all.
Right, the book is quite thin. Mayve only 64 pages. Therefore it can be hard to sort out when it was buried among other books. (Sometimes I find myself TOO ENTHUSIASTIC in recommending books I like. It is just a funny story book--perhaps good for myself only.) Anyway, I was crazy about Louis Sachar`s writing in 1999 or 2000. I have all the books in print by him. Holes (Disney 別有洞天) is maybe the most famous of them all. I like his WAYSIDE SCHOOL STORIES better. A bunch of preposterous tales.
It is my job to know so many strange writers. Maybe it is my destiny, seeing that I am also a strange person.
You must be a very deligent housekeeper to have a clean bathroom for your kids to play and eat in it.
What book? I`m too old to remember. Maybe someday after my retirement I will find it somewhere on my bookshelf.
Sometimes I want to be strange, but I`m just so ordinary. I want to do something special or better, but my laziness stops me. It doesn`t matter. The ordinary JANET is an old woman now.