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Re: lol

[groovesinorbit]

HH. Couldn't help myself there. Just joshing ya.

Wasn't somebody in your family's first word 'porkchop'? That sticks in my head. I have no idea what mine was. Not interesting enough to be passed down, anyway.

"I loves ya, Rob, but you can't have that."

I love it.

Possibly not surprisingly, learning to share was a big issue with me as a small child. I have a very vague memory of not sharing with a neighbor kid and getting told off pretty severely.

I think I've gotten better at that.

Re: lol

[fflo.livejournal.com]

With your siblings so much older than you, it's almost like you were an only child, insofar as sharing toys, etc. And, yeah, I too think you've gotten better at it!

The pork chop reference is to another old family story. The one in which I eat my first solid food, at a pivotal moment in the family's history. Maybe I'll put it down in the journal some time. I've just told it recently a bunch; must be on my mind, with academia and A.B.D.ness and everything. Think I may have told it to coworker B. (not B.) more than once, in fact, as when I told it to her and her now-hubby not long ago, it seemed as if she'd perhaps already heard it. Don't you hate when that happens? H. & I told the same stories many times, though, so I've gotten a little more used to the feeling.

Re: lol

[groovesinorbit]

Yeah, we're all going to be like R's mom before too long, telling the same stories over and over again. I do it, too.

Re: lol

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like stories, though. You know? Maybe I shoulda done that folklore thing. 'Cept it might goof up the pleasure, as close study sometimes does.

Re: lol

[groovesinorbit]

I love stories! But you hear one for the 56th time, your mind does start to wander.

Hard to say if studying them up close would ruin the pleasure. I guess it all depends on how you approach them.