Girls discussing Sports
-One of my co-workers asked me if I had heard about the baseball player who got stabbed (accidentally) by a broken bat. I had not, so I listened to the detailed story she gave and then said, “That’s terrible. What team was it?” She said, “A blue team.”
-A friend of mine asked me if I knew what all of the acronyms for college football conferences stood for. When I said, “Nope, that’s not something my dad taught me,” she replied, “Mine either. Apparently the only acronym he thought was important to teach me was STD.”
Girls discussing Boys
-I ended up “entertaining” a 12-year-old girl in my office last week. (Her grandfather was here for a meeting, and I felt bad for the kid so I told her she could hang out in my office.) I, of course, started talking about Justin Bieber – because I thought he was popular with the tween girls. Wrong. When I asked her if she was a Bieber fan, she informed me, “I like older guys. Like Chris Brown, who I used to LOVE. (She paused.) Until he slapped Rihanna.”
My 9 year old son "hates" Justin Bieber but my 6 year old daughter took $5 in quarters out of her piggy bank and bought a book about him at the book fair last week. 🙂