Soothing Reassurances
On the phone tonight:
Elijah (crying): Daddy, I wanted to say good night to you! Good night, daddy!
Neal: Good night, buddy. Be a good boy for mommy.
Elijah: OK.
Regina: He's done.
Neal: No. Put him back on.
Elijah: Hi, Daddy!
Neal: Hey, Elijah. Guess what?
Elijah: What?
Neal: You know what happened today?
Elijah: What?
Neal: My arm fell off.
Elijah: No!
Neal: It did. And then I put it back on.
Elijah: Guess what happened to me today.
Neal: What?
Elijah: JoJo put glue in my hair and stuck me to a lamp-post.
Neal: Wow.
Regina: OK. He's done.
Neal: I think he'll be fine.
Comments
This sounds like the conversations I STILL have with my mom at 32.
Posted by: Meg | January 22, 2007 11:00 AM
You've dropped the quotation marks from your dialog. Are you writing something for stage or screen?
Posted by: Bardomatic | January 22, 2007 2:41 PM
OMFG, Bush just said in the state of the onion speech that Baby Einstein represents the best of the American spirit of enterprise and small business. It's a Republican conspiracy!
Posted by: Bepah Benoweh | January 23, 2007 7:01 PM
Better a Lamp post than a fire truck or UFO, right?
Posted by: creative-type dad | January 24, 2007 12:47 PM