Friday, January 11, 2008

Kids with runny noses scare me

Gentle readers - My daughter is three. She has a cold. That's not scary. The stuff coming out of her nose though...that would turn back armies of Huns.
I'll explain. Her nose looks like it needs a wipe (every 3 seconds). So you grab a tissue and wipe it, right? Aren't you cute. Maybe the first time. But here's how a pro does it.
You command your child to come to you for a nose wipe. She rolls her glassy little eyes at you. You fortify yourself with no less than three tissues and descend on the runny nose. You proceed to wipe while a virtual clown-car of snot is discharged from the tiny little nose in your care.
It's nasty. I say we line the borders of the US with snotty nosed three-year olds in need of a wipe. We could let the Border Patrol go and Ta da! Budget surplus!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Snot as a defense mechanism? Interesting, but I propose this: snot as fuel. Something to consider...

WYM said...

Snot as fuel? That's silly. :-)