Comments on: St*ff my three year old says

By: MOM

MOM — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:53:17 +0000

Maybe I just don’t remember correctly but I don’t think I was all that upset about the map on the wall.

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 04:40:52 +0000

In reply to MOM. I don't remember much of that, though I do remember the corkboard. I also remember having trouble drawing the United States because it was asymmetrical. I'd draw the east coast, then it was hard to not make the west coast look like the east coast. I'm not sure why that was hard, but when you're four, most things are.

By: Steve Aubrey

Steve Aubrey — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 03:46:21 +0000

Parents can have a different view of “fun” and “useful” than young children have.

I’m sure all has been forgiven.

By: MOM

MOM — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:04:32 +0000

That incident prompted me to cover one wall of your bedroom with corkboard and I was much more careful about keeping a stack of typing paper in your room. I was amazed at the details on the weather maps you drew as a 3-4 year old. But there’s WAY more to it than that, son. Other little boys played “Superman.” I had to draw that symbol changing the “S” to a “D” onto a tee-shirt for you and you were “Dave Dusik: Weatherman”. (Complete with cape which–if I remember right–was a red apron you tied around your neck.) You would stand up straight to say “Dave Dusik” then put one leg out in front of the other, stretch your arms out and almost sing “Weatherman”. It was too funny! But you told me you wanted to be a weatherman because you wanted a job where you would never have to be right. Your reasoning: When your prediction is right, everyone says, “Wow, he’s really smart.” When your prediction is wrong, you hear, “EVERYONE knows you can’t predict the weather.”

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 03:09:38 +0000

In reply to Steve Aubrey.

All I can remember is that the TV station we watched had a meteorologist by the name of Dave Dusik and I wanted to be like him.

There was this unfortunate incident where I wanted to draw a weather map, and the only piece of paper I could find was a piece of facial tissue, and of course the only thing I could find to draw with was a marker. So I taped it on the wall, drew my weather map, and let’s just say I accidentally left a second copy of my map on the wall. Mom found that later. That’s probably why she remembers the weatherman thing.

By: Steve Aubrey

Steve Aubrey — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 02:14:57 +0000

I’ll bite.

Dave, why did you want to be a weatherman when you grew up?

By: MOM

MOM — Thu, 29 May 2014 19:12:37 +0000

It wasn’t all that many years ago that another three-almost-four-year-old came up with some gems. David had mighty career aspirations from early on. First he wanted to be a “garbage dump truck man.” That stems from his fascination with garbage trucks going back to when he was in preschool. Later on he wanted to be a “door man”. Not sure if he wanted to make doors or open doors–and he could never quite figure it out, either. By the time he was four, David wanted to be a weatherman when he grew up. (Someone ask him why.) I could write a book about profound statements made by David before he ever started school.

By: Dan Bowman

Dan Bowman — Thu, 29 May 2014 16:22:14 +0000

Oh, man…

Karma is a stone cold bit**.

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