Mr. Hooper’s Buns
I’ve mentioned before how nosey Griffin can be. However, I’m not sure I’ve described how truly ineffective he is at eavesdropping. Every time he butts into a conversation or thinks he’s overheard something of interest to him he’s usually so far off the mark that the original conversation just screeches to a halt and everyone is left befuddled or laughing hysterically.
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For some reason, he thinks that whenever Mrs. Big Daddy and I are speaking to each other, one on one, we are always talking about selling our house and moving. We are not. No matter how many times we reassure him that we like where we live and we have no intention of moving, he still thinks nearly every conversation we have in private is about relocation and he inevitably panics.
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Other times, he is convinced that everyone in the world shares his interest in elevators, traffic lights, Wilford Brimley, and Kermit the Frog. So it should come as no surprise that when the Big Daddy Clan was entertaining an old college buddy and the discussion somehow turned to fast food jingles from the 1970s and 1980s Griffin gleefully thought he heard that the last ingredient in a Big Mac was a “Sesame Street Bun.” He couldn’t stop giggling as he repeatedly sang,
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“On a Sesame Street Bun!!”
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What a perfect world! Now Griffin believes that one of his favorite foods on earth comes on a bun which, obviously, is baked somewhere on his favorite street in the world.
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Note: I was going to end this post with a joke about Elmo and “special sauce” but I just couldn’t. I respect Big Mac’s too much.
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Aimee
July 24th, 2012 at 6:02 pm #
What?! You guys are moving to Sesame Street? When did you sell the house? Will your new house have an elevator?
Sanstrousers
July 24th, 2012 at 6:29 pm #
Oh, man, your son would lose his mind grapes if you got a house with an elevator!
MarsupialMama
July 25th, 2012 at 12:19 pm #
A house with an elevator would be pretty cool. I wish Griffin would eavesdrop on my conversations. He’d make them so much more interesting and/or hilarious.