Let's buy a police car!

[navygreen]

(By the way, this whole first paragraph is mostly filler for the ending conversation... just so you know. *wink*)

Jack and I went to the commissary to do our grocery-shopping this afternoon while A.J. was still in school. At Jack's request, I bought the things needed and made spaghetti and breadsticks for dinner. Afterwards, the boys and I played Frisbee outside together for almost 45 minutes. We then decided to have ice cream for our dessert, and we had two choices: ice cream from home or ice cream from Runza® (we had 9 of the free kids' cone coupons stacked up from kids' meals over the past 3 months or so). The boys chose Runza ice cream, of course, so we loaded up in the van and went inside the restaurant to get our treats. And on the way home, the following conversation occurred:

(police car goes whizzes, lights flashing)
A.J.: Mom, can police go as fast as they want to?
Me: As long as they are driving a police car.
A.J.: (in an awe-filled voice) You mean they can go in FIFTH gear?
Me: (laughing) Yes, they can go in fifth gear.
A.J.: So as long as they drive a police car, they can go fast?
Me: Yep.
A.J.: (pauses for just a smidge) Mom, can we sell this car and get a police one?
Me: (laughing) No, bud, we can't sell this car and buy a police one.
A.J.: (in a very knowing tone) Yeah. I bet we don't have enough on our credit card to buy a police car. Not even if you put yours *and* Dad's credit cards together.
Me: (giggling) No, probably not.
A.J.: Yeah, we probably would need EIGHT HUNDRED credit cards, and *then* we could buy a police car.
A.J.: (turns to Jack) Hey Jack, let's stop picking up pennies on the ground and start watching for credit cards, okay?
Jack: Okay, A.J. (then, in an excited voice) Yeah, and we'll pick up lots and LOTS of them!

Heehee. One day, A.J.'s going to learn a hard lesson about buying a car. ;-)

Comments

[livemockingbird.livejournal.com]

hahaha! Almost as cute as Arden saying, "Oh jeez! No kitties on the table!."

[purrrplekitty.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Cute story! =D

[scarletharlot52.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful! Your boys are so modern. I would have never thought to look for credit cards.

When I was in university my parents told me they sold their car and bought a fire truck. I didn't believe them but they both insisted it was true. Usually my mom wouldn't go along with my dad's nutty jokes, so when she said it was true, I wondered if it actually was.

Of course it wasn't, and here I was, 20 years old, and convinced that my parents had bought a fire truck. :-)

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. I'm surprised you fell for it too!

Hey, remember the special "rire ruck" book? :-)

[scarletharlot52.livejournal.com]

You bet I do, girlie! Do the boys still look at it?

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

No, chick, they don't. That book was loved too much (and was a fairly flimsy "book" even when I made it), and it's demise was about a year ago now. :-(

[takarakanashi.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I love you and I love your adorable Jack and A.J. too. :D

Let's pick up credit cards. Genius! I should come up there and help. :D

[theswedishchef.livejournal.com]

I love your stories. I shared this with a few coworkers who got a chuckle. We needed a laugh today.

[1grl-revolution.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

Your kids rule. I can't wait until my friend's baby is talking. Then we can discuss the cuteness of kids with me actually having something to say about it! Heehee!

[jeffholton.livejournal.com]

Yah. Unfortunately they already seem to have learned a lesson that we all have learned as well, but which is incorrect: they have learned that credit cards are worth money.

Credit cards are only worth money if you are a credit card company.

Otherwise, they are worth somewhere between zero and a large negative number.

(Actually, my corporate card for work has a positive balance on it, but that's a short and uninteresting story.)

[prairie-chica.livejournal.com]

Oh my, the awesomeness that is AJ and Jack. *giggles* :D