7/10/08

Pavlov's Birdy

Okay--so lately I have been doing this thing that I haven't done since I was a kid. I am sure you did this too.

Imagine: you are 10 years old and you have been charged with cleaning your room. And lo and behold you see a toy/book/game that despite the dire words of your parent (clean this room or else): you sit on the floor and commence NOT cleaning your room. You are lost in time and space, engrossed in your activity. And then the doorknob turns (or if closed doors weren't allowed, ominous foot steps sound) and you jerk up and pretend that all along you were cleaning. HA! You are SO busted.

Well, for the past several weeks, when Jamey walks in the door. I am once again 10 years old, I stop, jerk and pick up something. Never mind I may have spent the entire day cleaning and I am having a well deserved sit down. I stop, I jerk and pick up!

It's driving me nuts. I am not in trouble and my husband is NOT my Dad/Mom. What really bites: I JUST did this again when my sister walked home form her day at work!!!

Bang bang!

Labels: cleaning, daily rant, family, Kid Antics

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Sooo ingrained! I did I do that? Bad as me coming to attention 23 years after I left the AF (visiting son and the cadre sgt calls the room to attention when the Capt. walks in). The boys still have a laugh at mom for that one. Or going back to check that the chest frezzer lid is really shut. Funny how these things work.

By  Anonymous, at 10:10 PM  

Birdy, I am 52 years old and I still do that.

By  Bev, at 1:05 PM  

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