Auntie Brag Story Time!
My sister, about the time the movie, "Men in Black", came out on video, HAD to get it for my dear 3-yr-old nephew, Caleb, just so he could see his favorite character, the Alien Cockroach, over and Over...ugh. Well, dear sister also noticed dear nephew starting a very disturbing trend of running around going, "Oh sht! Oh sht! Oh sht!" all the sudden. It didn't take her long to figure out where he learned that colorful rant: Will Smith's own "Men in Black" character! He played Nervous Nelly to Tommy Lee Jones' role as man-in-black, so when ol' Will Smith started in with his Scared in His Own Shorts routine (all through that movie!), it featured that Magic Phrase, "Oh sht!..." You bet Dear Sister swiftly deleted Dear Nephew's copy of "Men in Black" from his video collection, then as calmly as humanly possible for a totally freaked-out Mommy, explained to Caleb that only Grown-Ups just in movies called "Men in Black" could only say Those Bad Bad Words, not little boys named Caleb in Real Life! Hey it worked for us, thank God--he stopped chanting That Phrase right away (whew!). Now how could I make up a story THAT good, LOL???
Auntie Brag Story Time! My sister, about the time the movie, "Men in Black", came out on video, HAD to get it for my dear 3-yr-old nephew, Caleb, just so he could see his favorite character, the Alien Cockroach, over and Over...ugh. Well, dear sister also noticed dear nephew starting a very disturbing trend of running around going, "Oh sht! Oh sht! Oh sht!" all the sudden. It didn't take her long to figure out where he learned that colorful rant: Will Smith's own "Men in Black" character! He played Nervous Nelly to Tommy Lee Jones' role as man-in-black, so when ol' Will Smith started in with his Scared in His Own Shorts routine (all through that movie!), it featured that Magic Phrase, "Oh sht!..." You bet Dear Sister swiftly deleted Dear Nephew's copy of "Men in Black" from his video collection, then as calmly as humanly possible for a totally freaked-out Mommy, explained to Caleb that only Grown-Ups just in movies called "Men in Black" could only say Those Bad Bad Words, not little boys named Caleb in Real Life! Hey it worked for us, thank God--he stopped chanting That Phrase right away (whew!). Now how could I make up a story THAT good, LOL???