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There have been a couple of things said in this household over the past week or so which made me roll my eyes.
The first one was when Iain and I were in B&Q looking at the turf and trying to work out how much it would cost to instantly turf our new lawn area rather than get top soil and a couple of boxes of grass seed and wait for nature to take its course. We could see the rolled up turf and the price of it and Iain was trying to work out how many we would require. . . say the turf was about 2 feet wide by 4 feet long. . .
Iain then blurted out “Oh this is ridiculous! How can they give a ‘square yard’ price for this when any fool can see that the product isn’t SQAURE? It is RECTANGULAR!’
I spent quite a while watching his face to see if he was cracking a joke. Nope. He had been deadly serious.
When you hear that, you will realise that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when you hear David’s silly thing then.
It was the day of the Hadron Collider switch on. It had been in the news all day and when David got home from school he had obviously heard all about it and the scaremongering that had gone on around it too.
David: Oh – did you hear about the big machine?
Me: *raises eyebrow*
David: Seemingly today it was going to make the world stop
Me: Really?
David: Did that work then?
Me: BLINK
It took him a weeeee minute to become embarrassed. . . .
Sigh. See what I have to work with?