Me: Hey, do you wanna play winter basketball this year?
Ranger: Ahhhh, man! Why do I have to decide right now? (whining)
Me: Well, first of all I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but sign ups are right now. Games won't start til after Christmas.
Ranger: Ahhhh....why do they make you decide so early! (sigh of disgust)
Me: (Wow! And here I thought he'd be excited.) You don't have decide right this second. Just in the next couple of days.
Ranger: Ahhhhhh! Why?!
Me: Fine. If it's causing you that much inner turmoil then clearly you're not ready to play. We'll skip this year and you can decide next year.
Ranger: Well, I don't know if I wanna play or not.
Me: Why not?
Ranger: I just don't know.
Me: Would it help if you played on a team with your sister or with your friends?
Ranger: I just really hate basketball cuz you have to run so much. I don't like sports that you have to run. And I really don't like bouncing the ball.
Me: Okay then. If you don't like bouncing a ball and you don't like running then basketball probably isn't the sport for you. How about football?
Ranger: Nope. Too much running.
Me: Baseball?
Ranger: Hmmmm...well I really like to hit the ball but I hate to run around the bases.
Me: Soccer?
Ranger: Well, at least it doesn't have as much running as basketball.
Me: (WTH?) Wrestling?
Ranger: Well, what do you do?
Me: Wrestle other boys to the ground and put them in headlocks and stuff. (short demonstration)
Ranger: Ummmm....what do you have to wear?
Me: A leotard.
Ranger: (mortified expression...scared eyes...mouth open...speechless...dumbfounded)
Me: (Dang! I lost him at leotard! Screw it. He can be a musician.)
3 comments:
hello? Our sons could be twins.
Mine doesn't want to do anything that requires extra effort on his part. He was signed up for Basketball this morning. I just told him it was happening.
And I will regret it every single second that I have to listen to the incessant whining. I know it's coming. I need to embrace sitting interests for him. But I'm sure he'd find a way to complain about those too.
Let's ship them all to a desert island and have them fend for themselves. We'll go get pedis.
Now THAT'S funny!
Soccer has LESS running than basketball? Boy has he been misled?
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