Imagination

[veritas honus]

...My 3 year old gave me a lesson/reminder...

I was sitting in the kitchen while my two sons played Wii (World War II Aces). My younger son yelled, "Daddy, I'm a JET!!!" I responded, "OK, that's great!" he said it again and then asked me to "come and see!!!" I went in to the living room and looked at him, and then the television. I saw that he was controlling a Royal Air Force fighter(a small "prop" fighter plane). I told him, "That's GREAT!!! ...But your plane has propellers... It's a "prop plane". I pointed out the propellers and told him that a jet has "jet engines, not propellers; but you're doing great!!!"

He looked me square in the eye, and said, "Daddy, if I pretend really hard... it will be a jet." He articulated every word individually, and with perfect clarity.

I was speechless... He looked back at the screen and continued playing.

It was a few seconds before I was finally able to say, "You are SO right!!!" I walked back to the kitchen with my head spinning!!!

We can learn, and "relearn" much from our children.

 

[aspeck]

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Awesome lesson ... so if I pretend hard enough will my boat turn into a yacht and will I have enough money to pay for the fuel???

 

[QC]

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Yes Art. If you are three that will work.

 

[aspeck]

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Okay, so let me start by imagining I am 3! :facepalm:

 

[WIMUSKY]

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Okay, so let me start by imagining I am 3! :facepalm:

 

[lncoop]

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Yes Art. If you are three that will work.

I don't think so QC, 'cause according to the admiral I'm three, and I still just have a Suntracker party barge, flat back canoe, sixteen foot Mad River, fourteen foot river raft,.......wait a minute, no wonder she says I'm three.

 

[JB]

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Isn't being Dad to uninhibited children the most wonderful of life's experiences?

 

[foodfisher]

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veritas honus, close your eyes and imagine you are an Eskimo, the real thing. Got it? Now, can I borrow your wife and her planning skills?:facepalm:

 

[veritas honus]

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Finally got a chance to read these replies.

You guys are all AWESOME!!! My wife and I, both are LMAO!!!

 

[JoLin]

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Are you guys saying that you don't imagine you're something different anytime the mood strikes you?

I gotta tell you, every time I pull away from the dock I AM, for a brief, fleeting moment, the skipper of a PT boat headed out on patrol. Seriously- every single time.

(probably shouldn't have admitted that) :facepalm:

 

[oops!]

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I gotta tell you, every time I pull away from the dock I AM, for a brief, fleeting moment, the skipper of a PT boat headed out on patrol. Seriously- every single time.

ok skipper.........now imagine that you have a water cannon.....

and every jet ski you see is a pirate.........

 

[aspeck]

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Are you guys saying that you don't imagine you're something different anytime the mood strikes you?

I gotta tell you, every time I pull away from the dock I AM, for a brief, fleeting moment, the skipper of a PT boat headed out on patrol. Seriously- every single time.

(probably shouldn't have admitted that) :facepalm:

Note to self: If you see John cruising in his Four Winns, give him a wide birth, cuz PT boat skipper is on patrol and you never know what a loose cannon will do in a PT boat!

 

[aspeck]

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...My wife and I, both are LMAO!!!

Wait, shouldn't that be LOAO (Laughing Our ...)? Because if your wife is laughing your ... oh, never mind.

 

[JoLin]

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ok skipper.........now imagine that you have a water cannon.....

and every jet ski you see is a pirate.........

Uhhh... that's the other part of the 'imagination'. I didn't think you guys were ready for all of it....

 

[coastalrichard]

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Isn't being Dad to uninhibited children the most wonderful of life's experiences?

I'm finding being Grampa is even better

 

[coastalrichard]

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Wait, shouldn't that be LOAO (Laughing Our ...)? Because if your wife is laughing your ... oh, never mind.

Hopefully she laughed evenly VH:facepalm:

 

[veritas honus]

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You guys are all awesome!!! My wife and I are seriously "LOAO" again!!!... And by the way, I had written "LOAO" in that last response; but someone who shall remain nameless (to protect the innocent), talked me in to changing it to LMAO. I think I'm in trouble now...:facepalm:

 

[veritas honus]

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veritas honus, close your eyes and imagine you are an Eskimo, the real thing. Got it? Now, can I borrow your wife and her planning skills?:facepalm:

Hey, wait a minute... Your referrencing two different threads, now. Although, I did, indeed start both, aren't you still, technically, highjacking this one???

Alright... I'll admit, I'm grasping at straws here. I cannot, in good conscience, jump on ya fer da "...borrow your wife" comment, 'cause that was just way to witty and funny to be "beaten-up" for... I guess I just hadda get a little jab in there, somehow...

 

[foodfisher]

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Thanks for pulling the punch.