Saturday, June 29, 2013

Nate - Future Programmer?

So the other day a friend "shared" on facebook a link for
21 Jokes Only Nerds Will Understand (Click here if you want to see them all)

I clicked over, 'cause I'm curious & wanted to see how many I would get. I saw this one & just about fell off my chair laughing. I laughed longer and harder than I had for some time.



So here's why it was so funny.

A couple of weeks ago we (the kids and I) were running Abbie to Baton class and Nate was hungry. We went across the street to the bagel shop & I gave him money & sent him in to get a half dozen sesame seed bagels (his favorite). He came back out very sad, they were out of sesame seed bagels I mentally went through their bagels and sent him back in. My suggestion: "Why don't you go back in and get a pizza bagel, you like pizza. You can try something new and then maybe next time you'll have another kind that you like." He asked me if he should get a dozen to which  I replied "No, just get one to try and if you like it you can get more later". He came out with a half dozen pizza bagels and a free sample he talked them into giving him.

Somehow he got the worker to give him a sample to try, decided he liked it, and (I guess) it was "later" enough & I had orignially sent him in for a half dozen bagels so surely I still needed a half dozen.So he bought a half dozen pizza bagels. Perfect Nate logic.

I don't think I'll ever need a half dozen pizza bagels, but I did get a reminder that day of just how literal he can be. Hey programmers make good money - right?!

Not at all related to this post but today I am grateful for a creative husband who "redneck engineered"  the kids pool so they could cool off in this heat & I didn't have to find the $$$ for new pool! They've been playing all day - it makes us all much happier. ("Redneck engineered" are Dan's words not mine - he's the least redneck person I know!)

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