Wee Boy: Dave what’s your boss’s name
Me: Erica
Wee Boy: Hah! Why am I not surprised your boss is a girl
Author Archives: Dave McAnally
Calling the President
Wee Boy: hey Dave, you know what would be awesome?
Me: no what?
Wee Boy: if I accidentally dialed the president.
Me: oh yeah?
Wee Boy: yeah. He’d pick up and say “hello this is Barack Obama” and I’d say “Obama! What the eff?!” And hang up before he knew who called.
Blending in with Southerners
Wee Boy: hey Dave, do I sound like I’m from the south? “Hey! All y’all y’all y’all yeah man!”
Emotional Scenes
(Watching Return of the Jedi )
Wee Boy: this is a really hard scene for me
Me: why?
Wee Boy: well I can handle the Storm Troopers getting killed, but I just get so emotional when the Ewoks die. That’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to watch
Women Driving
Wee Boy: so Dave guess what? Since my mom has been driving all day, she’ll have driven through 4 states if she gets through Kentucky
Me: yap! Can you name them?
Wee Boy: Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky Me: yap! That’s a lot!
Wee Boy: yeah especially for a woman.
The Portuguese
Wee Boy: Dave have you ever heard of the Portuguese?
Me: you mean people from Portugal?
Wee Boy: yeah I guess. They’re pretty scary and I think there’s a house in Germany where they are all over.
Me: oh yeah?
Wee Boy: yeah. They move chairs around and fling things all over. Mostly they are in abandon places but sometimes they haunt families
Me: you said the Portuguese do this?
Wee Boy: yeah. I think there’s a movie about them. Basically they’re like ghosts but the move furniture more
Me: I think you mean Poltergeists.
Wee Boy: yeah maybe. They might be the same thing.
On Pee Wee
(Watching the breakfast machine scene in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure)
Wee Boy: I don’t know who that guy is but he’s the happiest person I’ve ever seen in my life
Nightmares
Wee Boy: Man, I had the freakiest dream last night.
Me: Oh yeah? What was it about?
Wee boy: Well I had a dream that I had ticks all over my balls and had to pick them off. Man what a nightmare that was!
Friendly Competition
Wee Boy: I got my first cross country meet after school
Me: nice! Who ya running against?
Wee Boy: Bryan Junior High
Me: right on. You know if they’re any good?
Wee Boy: well the coach says they’re 2nd best.
Me: nice. Who’s ranked #1?
Wee Boy: We are. The coach says they are our friends and to be good sportsmen. But I think it’s good to go beat your friends
Being Refined
Wee Boy: so I’ve been told I need to work on not scratching my unit so much. You know what that means?
Musings From the Wee Boy 