C(9): You said Alex Hirsch was only like 6mo younger than you why can’t you be a famous creator of my favorite tv show?
Dad: Maybe you can be a famous creator someday
C: Nope. I am too interested in mathematics, zoology, hydroponics, history and insects
*me looking through all the different Olympics broadcasts going on*
Dad: woah there’s all kinds of Olympics, which one do you want to watch?
C(9) from the other room: WINTER!
M(12): if we get too many snow days it gets added at the end of the year
C(9): yeah but what if the make up days are snow days
M: it’s summer, it won’t be a snow day
C: it might with global warming!
*Watching Vine compliations with C(9)*
C: Why are they cube shaped
Dad: LOL
C: I’m serious why are they cube shaped videos and not phone shaped?
Dad: Hold on I gotta tweet this
C(9): Santa gave me an American girl doll last year, does he license it?
M(12): He pays for the IP, he owns a bunch of IP
C: but don’t you think American girl would announce a partnership with Santa?
Mom: yeah but they probably have to sign an NDA
I told C the girl from the “look at all those chickens” is on tiktok and she’s in her 20s
C(9): Going viral in a meme means you can get a job, you can put it on your resume and get hired
Dad: I don’t think it works like that
C: it’s called sarcasm dad. You do it all the time
C(9): Back before the Internet when you read the back of shampoo bottles for entertainment, if you didn’t know what an ingredient was did you look it up in your encyclopedia?
C(8): this dog is never going to be the protector, he’s small and dumb
Dad: why do you think he’s dumb?
C: he eats poisonous food crumbs off the floor!
Dad: that’s ignorant not dumb
C: ok well he doesn’t know how to use a drying machine
Dad: a hair dryer?
C: yeah