When I volunteer in Jachin’s classroom, I overhear the most hilarious conversations you’ve ever heard. Third graders are both dramatic and brilliant. Here is one such conversation from today, and it involves my sweet boy… my sweet boy who is often very misunderstood.

Jachin: Hey Mikey, we had to return Brawl last night. The five days were up.

(If you are a third grade boy, you already know that Brawl is “Super Smash Brother’s Brawl”, the sweetest video game on the planet. Jachin had rented it with his allowance money.)

Mikey: Oh no! You don’t have Brawl anymore?  How will we wi-fi?

Jachin: I’m working on a plan.

Jachin walks over to the table where I’m sitting, sorting papers.

Jachin: Mom, can we sell Zoe to get money to buy Brawl?

Me: What do you think?

Jachin: Darn.  (Then he turns back to Mikey:) On to Plan B!

Mikey: You can just come over to my  house and play Brawl whenever you want.

Third Grade Girl: You guys are gross. Stop talking about it or I’ll tell the teacher.

Jachin to the Girl: What are you talking about??

Jachin to Mikey: But I want my own Brawl so we can wi-fi whenever we want.

Girl: Stop saying that! You guys are rude.

Jachin (even more perplexed): What the heck are you talking about?

Girl: I’m telling the teacher you’re being gross.

Jachin: We’re gross for talking about a video game??

Girl: Oh… it’s a video game?

Jachin: Um, yeah. You know, Super Smash Bros. Brawl…

Girl: Oh… I though you were talking about girls’ bras.

Jachin gives Mikey a weird look. They both exchange icky looks. There is a lot of eye rolling from both camps.

Jachin: Why would we want to talk about dumb girl stuff?

Third Grade Girl is embarrassed. I think she actually wears a bra. Which is upsetting to me because I didn’t wear a bra until, like, 8th grade. But when I replayed the conversation in my head, replacing “Brawl” with “Bra”, I can see why she was so upset. This poor girl thought she was surrounded by pervy 8 year old cross dressers.

I just smiled and kept sorting papers, thanking the powers that be that my son’s world still revolves around Brawl instead of bras.

2 Comments »

1. Cute post! Glad you’re back, I missed you.

   Comment by Cassie — April 30, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

2. Ha ha! Thank goodness they don’t care about bras, yet. That comes soon enough.

   Comment by Leslie — May 5, 2008 @ 7:39 am

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