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wordplayRepost from chromodynamics, because a whole bunch of you aren't over at his journal and I love this story:
So I walked my son O and my daughter A home yesterday along with her friends F and M. F comes over usually once a week, and the two girls play outside, usually with a big rock they have named "Rosie". Rosie has an elaborate back story that the girls were explaining to M, about how she is a 1,000 year old person who was turned to stone but will soon come back to life. My son heard this, which resulted in the following exchange:
O: "How do you know she's 1,000 years old?"
A: "It's written in a (weird name here) book."
O: "Well, can I see this book?"
A: "No, it's invisible."
O: "Then how do you see it?"
F: "We have special (weird name here) glasses."
O: "Well, can I see the glasses?"
A: "No, they are invisible too!"
O: "Then how do you know where they are?"
A and F: "We just do!"
O has so earned his Skeptics license!
After this they separated, and O told me all about how they were lying, because people obviously didn't have the technology to turn into stone 1,000 years ago ("they don't even have it today!"), and we talked about the difference between lying and pretending.
It was a good walk home.
Also, O was involved in his first playground fight today. He was close enough to the action to get his glasses pulled off and tossed around and to get caught up in the massive principal's sweep, but uninvolved enough to not get at all hurt or in any kind of trouble which, for his money, was perfect - he's been calling it his "recess adventure" and enjoying telling us the story, including the "epilogue", where he and his cronies do a quick boys' room post-mortem and O points out the inconsistencies in the story of their chief adversary. He really is quite a natural story-teller - or a litigator.
Of the two of them, A is the one I'd say rolled a natural 18 for charisma, but O has this quiet, internalized, steady confidence and a real sense of himself that I like an awful, awful lot.
chromodynamics, because a whole bunch of you aren't over at his journal and I love this story:So I walked my son O and my daughter A home yesterday along with her friends F and M. F comes over usually once a week, and the two girls play outside, usually with a big rock they have named "Rosie". Rosie has an elaborate back story that the girls were explaining to M, about how she is a 1,000 year old person who was turned to stone but will soon come back to life. My son heard this, which resulted in the following exchange:
O: "How do you know she's 1,000 years old?"
A: "It's written in a (weird name here) book."
O: "Well, can I see this book?"
A: "No, it's invisible."
O: "Then how do you see it?"
F: "We have special (weird name here) glasses."
O: "Well, can I see the glasses?"
A: "No, they are invisible too!"
O: "Then how do you know where they are?"
A and F: "We just do!"
O has so earned his Skeptics license!
After this they separated, and O told me all about how they were lying, because people obviously didn't have the technology to turn into stone 1,000 years ago ("they don't even have it today!"), and we talked about the difference between lying and pretending.
It was a good walk home.
Also, O was involved in his first playground fight today. He was close enough to the action to get his glasses pulled off and tossed around and to get caught up in the massive principal's sweep, but uninvolved enough to not get at all hurt or in any kind of trouble which, for his money, was perfect - he's been calling it his "recess adventure" and enjoying telling us the story, including the "epilogue", where he and his cronies do a quick boys' room post-mortem and O points out the inconsistencies in the story of their chief adversary. He really is quite a natural story-teller - or a litigator.
Of the two of them, A is the one I'd say rolled a natural 18 for charisma, but O has this quiet, internalized, steady confidence and a real sense of himself that I like an awful, awful lot.
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on 2009-05-20 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2009-05-21 07:12 pm (UTC)Always an under-rated attribute, that one. And for shame, I tended to trade Charisma points to up Dexterity (thereby lowering the Armour Class). Nice reference :-)
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on 2009-05-22 02:17 pm (UTC)