May 30 2011
Chooch: Making the Neighbors Hate Me
Henry’s mom Judy babysat Chooch for us last night while we were soul skating. As soon as we came home, Judy said in a worried, apprehensive tone, “There’s something you should know.
”
Apparently, Chooch had a lovely conversation with our neighbor Toya (the Mr. Wilson to his Dennis the Menace — he is seriously all up in that woman’s grill while she’s trying to garden).
“He told that nice woman over there that you painted a picture of her,” Judy said, looking nervous.
My first thought was that Toya probably thought I was in love with her. That I had some grandiose portrait of her above the bed and made out with it every night before stirring my vat of black market love potion.
“She asked him if it was a nice picture, and he said no,” Judy continued.
“Chooch!” I yelled. “Why would you say that?”
“Because it’s a monster,” he reasoned.
Judy said Toya was all, “OH REALLY??” And then Chooch tore the house apart, trying to find it.
“I didn’t know what to say!” Judy cried. “I couldn’t think fast enough. So I just told her it probably was very nice and that she should come over and ask you to see it.
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Three years ago, when I was on that monster-painting kick, I had just finished one and it needed a name. So I asked Chooch to name it. He had just got done pestering Toya from the side window, so naturally he wanted to name it after her.
THREE YEARS AGO.
But Toya probably thinks I have some hideous interpretation of her, hanging on my wall, and that maybe sometimes I fling cat shit at it to relieve my deep-rooted frustrations.
So now I’m going to have to seek her out today and show her this stupid painting of a stupid monster and explain that no, I don’t think she’s a monster, or looks like a monster, or acts like a monster; that my SON is the one who named the fucking thing in the first place.
It doesn’t help that she and I started off on the wrong foot when she moved here 4 years ago.
Still, this is decidedly not as bad as the time he told our other neighbor that I hate her. (Truth.) Thanks, son.
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Seriously, I really want to have 12 kids.
My son once asked a pizza delivery guy if he liked stalking people. When I asked him why he asked him that he said in front of the pizza guy that he looked like he liked stalking and killing people…
OMG that’s fantastic! My kid is definitely on that same path. Blunt as shit.