Blew the grandboy’s mind today.<\/p>\n
He was pretending to be flying in his space craft and landed on a planet. Announced that he’s landed safely.<\/p>\n
I asked him how he feels being a space alien.<\/p>\n
He replies, “No gwumpa I not alien. I’m exploring in space.”<\/p>\n
To which I respond, “I know you’re exploring. But you aren’t on your home planet any more.<\/p>\n
You’re on someone else’s planet and came from space. So you are now a space alien.”<\/p>\n
So he thinks.<\/p>\n
And thinks some more.<\/p>\n
And does the arm-waving, eye-rolling, walking weirdly thing…”woooogh I’mmmmm aaaa spaaaaacccccee aiiiilieeeeennnn”<\/p>\n
Labels do funny things to the human psyche \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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