Evan- & Gracie-isms

 

Evanism:

(1st some background info: My papaw Paul is hard-of- hearing, & even though he has a hearing aid, he still doesn’t always hear you right away.  He also has cancer & is undergoing proton therapy at MPRI, IU Bloomington. Yesterday we went up there to visit them. While we were there, Evan had the following conversation with my mamaw Judy in the car)

Evan was trying to tell mamaw something, he repeated himself a couple of times, but she was talking to Gracie at the time, so she didn’t respond right away.

He said: “Mamaw, do you have cancer too?”

She said: “No, why would you think that?”

He said: “Because you can’t hear either.”

 

Gracieism:

Gracie and I went out shopping today.  When we were walking away from the van and into Lowe’s, I locked the doors (which makes the horn honk).  She said “Mommy, why do you always lock the doors?” I said “Because we don’t want anybody to get into the car.”  That didn’t satisfy her and she said “But why?”  I figured I’d go a different route, so I said “Well, because we don’t want anyone to take our van.”  Her response?  “But I do.”  I said “You want somebody to steal the van?”  She said (very matter-of-factly) “Yeah, ‘cuz I don’t like the van very much.”