for the first part of my life

Went to cuauhtemoc yesterday, which has this dusty sprawling shopping district, lots of avestruz cowboy boots and hat shops, I thought malchano would love it. I took a picture of a hello kitty dress, and I bought a little rubber porcupine ball with a blinky led thing that lights up when you play with it for my cousins. This morning I was thinking about the strong sweet smell it has and realized that it’s an incredibly powerful purfume meant to disguise the smell of the cheap rubber, which reminded me of that conversation about how fabreeze is going to give us all cancer.

On the way back the two year old daughter of the cousins I was going with was a little loud while everybody wanted to rest, and I found myself trying to figure out how to explain the quiet game in spanish, and realized I don’t think I can even explain it in english. The quiet game was pure inspired genius on the part of my parents, there is no other explanation for it.

3 Responses to “for the first part of my life”

  1. Laura Says:

    my parents had the quiet game too
    surprisingly effective

  2. mcanulty Says:

    Maybe it’s some kind of secret that only parents fully know how to implement, like installed in their brains by aliens after conception. Speaking of, yesterday I realized my ipod has the whole dr octagon album done in instrumental versions, it’s crazy. Now kool keith is a certifiable alien genius.

  3. irene Says:

    i think the real issue is that the subjunctive is just a can of worms you don’t want to mess with, especially with little kids who think it’s just great that by saying “por que” they can completely disarm a grown up only capable speaking in say the simple past present and future tenses. that’s what i think. small triumphs for the colonized third world over yuppie americans.

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