Tonight I took Kristine to get her softball pictures taken and on the way home this is what you would have heard if you were a fly in my truck.
Driving past a diary with about 200 cows –
Me – Dang that is a strong smell. It burns!!!
Kristine – You get used to it – that is what it is going to smell like at my house (Kristine’s dream is to live on a ranch in Texas with her husband Buck).
Me – You are going to have 200 cows.
Kristine – No horses
Me - horses don’t smell that bad. I don’t remember it smelling that bad in Shelley at Grandma and Grandpa’s.
Kristine - well they only have 10 horses.
Me – how many horses are you going to have?
Kristine - 25-50
Me - wow that is a lot.
Kristine - Yeah, people are just going to give them to us because they don’t want to take care of them.
Me - How are you going to feed them?
Kristine - I am going to have a job like Uncle Jason (Uncle Jason is an Endodontist). Dad how much do you make an hour?
Me - $50 – (I figured that I would just throw out a big number for her).
Kristine - How much does Uncle Jason make per hour?
Me - I don’t know
Kristine - he gets paid a lot for pulling roots out of people’s teeth.
Me - Yeah it is a sweet gig if you can get it.
Kristine - That is what I am going to be – because I am not going to work at your company because it doesn’t pay for anything.
Me - I change the subject because I think I just got slammed by my daughter. How many kids are you going to have?
Kristine - Six
Me - Wow – 50 horses, six kids, an endodonist – what is Buck (the name of her husband) going to do?
Kristine - he is going to be an endodonist too.
Me - Wow!! Who is going to watch all your kids?
Kristine - well I am going to have one per year for six years – then that is where you and mom come in. You will watch them because you will be retired. Oh and I am going to have two diary cows, two beef cows, a pig and a chicken.
Me - What are you going to do with a pig?
Kristine - Hmmm open a petting zoo.
Me - Who is going to run the petting zoo?
Kristine - You and mom,
Me - Glad to see that my retirement years are planned out for me..
I pull into Sonic to get me a Diet Coke for which I have a coupon for a free one. Sweet….
Kristine - Dad you must spend $1,000 per year on Diet Cokes from Sonic.
Me - How’s that? (Your number is low)
Kristine - One per day and they are usually $1
Me - How many days in a year?
Kristine - 365
Me - How much is that?
Kristine - Ahhhhhhh
Me - What is 365 times $1?
Kristine - $365
ME - That is a lot less than $1,000 and tonight is didn’t cost me anything.
We both had a good laugh. Oh to be 12 again and have your dreams. I hope that Kristine is able to find happiness and fulfill all of her dreams. Someday I will miss having these talks with my girls. Now I have to go home and tell Penni that my job doesn’t pay for anything.
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4 comments:
That was hilarious! I can picture the whole conversation and it was a lot of fun to read! Boy, these days go by so quickly don't they. BTW, looks like you better get your resume back out there :)
That is so funny! I love kids and their innocence.
That's awesome - I love reading your stories they are always so funny! Keep 'em coming. You know, you could always get a second job....
I am soooo funny aren't I !!!
- Kristine
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