Having recently encountered some serious money ($50), my son Kurt headed to the toy store for his bi-yearly Lego fix. He came home beyond excited announcing that for the first time since learning about the buying power of money he did not buy Lego! Instead, he bought Sea Monkeys. Yes, Sea Monkeys. Complete with a plastic tank, crystallized eggs and fertilizer. Learning that Sea Monkeys were indeed a kind of shrimp, Liesl and I got busy contemplating how we could eventually eat them (would they be better BBQ’d or sauced?) when Kurt, oblivious to our culinary musings, announced that Sea Monkeys could reproduce in captivity. He added, lifting his eyes from the owner’s manual: “For those who don’t want to reproduce, the kit includes a special mating powder!” That was too good to pass. I replied: “Hey, be careful not to sneeze in it near your classmates!” Once he picked himself off the floor laughing, Kurt blurted: “It will be like the day “Quinn” was approaching all the girls in class telling them: “there’s a nice couch in the teachers’ lounge!!!”
Argh. Blah. Speechless…
Where do kids get their pick-up lines these days?
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