"Mom–is that first aid kit still in the van?"
"I think so–look under your seat."
Over the radio I hear them rummage around, pull out our vehicle first aid kit and pass it to the boys in the back seat. They are looking for a band-aid just the right size for a killer blister.
My thirteen year old mutters, "What's Kotex?"
After a pregnant pause, my eight year old says, "I think they are cigarettes."
At which point my daughter and I (images of an 8 year old attempting to light up a Kotex bursting upon the mental stage) can no longer breathe or even see straight because we are laughing so hard.
The men and boys in the car either don't notice, or pretend they don't notice; not one even cracks a smile. Which makes us laugh harder.
(And no–I did not seize the day and explain to the kid what they really were!)
June 8th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Awesome. Don't give the company any ideas……I wonder how hard it would be to put out a lit Kotex. Considering their absorbancy…..
June 8th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Sooooo funny!!! I remember when one friends child came out with pads stuck all over her body 🙂 Too funny!!
June 8th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Hysterical!
June 8th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Priceless!!!
June 8th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
That is so funny. Out of the mouths of babes!
June 9th, 2010 at 1:29 am
Oh that is so funny! Didn't you tell him it was to stop blood flow??????
June 9th, 2010 at 8:16 am
Shudder. When you said "absorbency" I had this gruesome image of a used lit Kotex. Ewww. I can't believe I actually posted this comment on my own blog…
June 9th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Huh….I know so little about dogs that I didn't even know they did that…
June 9th, 2010 at 8:18 am
It really was. I don't remember the last time I actually couldn't stop laughing about something!
June 9th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Yeah…I wonder what the price on the street would be if smoking such a thing ever really caught on!
June 9th, 2010 at 8:20 am
You're right!!! I could have done that! Your brain is sharper than mine, FD! Thanks for the laugh!
June 9th, 2010 at 8:46 am
Female dogs are just like female women unless they are fixed.
June 9th, 2010 at 9:00 am
hahahaha!
June 9th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Great story!
June 9th, 2010 at 10:44 am
OMIGOSH this is so cute! And Funny! The two forbidden topics–Kotex and cigarettes.
June 9th, 2010 at 10:48 am
I didn't even think of it that way–but that's probably why I was speechless with laughter!
June 11th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
LOL…. I used to tell my boys that they were "ladies things" – one day I found my then 5 year old son with a pad stuck inside his undies and a pair of my high heels on – dressed up as a lady! Twenty years later that still gives me a good laugh.