Lovely Wife: I know why I felt so sick yesterday. I think I'm getting my period.

Me: You should quit that. They're really gross.

Bear: I've got my period too!

Lovely Wife: You do?

Bear: Yeah, right now.

Me: Are you flowing like a river?

Bear: No.

Me: Well that's good anyway.

Lovely Wife: Stop teasing him. He doesn't know what a period is.

Bear: Then what is a period?

Lovely Wife: It's a dot that goes at the end of a sentence.

Me: Or the sanguineous discharge of the lining of the placenta.

Lovely Wife: Is not!

Me: Oh, right. I mis-spoke. It's the uterus, not the placenta.

Bear: That's gross.

Me: That's what I've been trying to say!

Bear has a playdate today. I wonder how that's going...

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1 "Are you flowing like a river?" I am relieved to note that men do actually know and use this term, and not just in reference to the Mississippi.

Posted by: Helen at February 01, 2005 02:28 PM (uFX1z)

2 Evil. Eeeevil. Pure evil. Sending him out on a play date with that kind of information. Report back, please, on the shock and horror his new information causes at said play date!

Posted by: RP at February 01, 2005 02:44 PM (LlPKh)

3 The only period I care to here about is the one at the end of the sentence. And if a discharge is involved, it better be honorable or dishonorable, or else my fingers go in my ears and I start singing LA LA LA LA LA LA LA! I believe Jeff Foxworthy once said something similar to the above...

Posted by: diamond dave at February 01, 2005 05:31 PM (rvmEE)

4 You do realize that one day this entire exchange is going to come back and bite you. Oh yes, my friend... oh yes it will... I can't wait for the post when it does. Grandma, Grandpa, his teacher... oh it is but a mystery who it will occur in front of, but I am thinking teacher. Heh.

Posted by: Boudicca at February 01, 2005 06:13 PM (z7nbM)

5 Interesting. I usually describe it as "the ripping of the uterine wall into a gush of blood." Might have to try this new tack.

Posted by: Simon at February 02, 2005 02:27 AM (OyeEA)

6 Boudicca makes an excellent point. Blog that when it happens, please.

Posted by: Victor at February 02, 2005 12:37 PM (L3qPK)

7 I linked this. Good Lord, Jim. You crack me up.

Posted by: Boudicca at February 02, 2005 10:01 PM (z7nbM)

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