My baby brother was in his stroller, and Mother and I were walking along the sidewalk up 34th Street. I'm a couple of years older than he is, so I was probably not over four years old.When Mother stopped to talk to Mrs. England at the corner of 8th Avenue, she said to me, "Keep an eye on your baby brother."
I remember wailing back at her, "How can I keep an eye on him? Do I take out my eye and put it on him?"
This was a serious problem for me, how I was supposed to do what my mother asked, but she and Mrs. England laughed. They did -- they laughed!
You wouldn't laugh at me, would you?
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The prompt at Weekend Wordsmith this week is EYE.
4 comments:
i think i can remember saying something similar at one point in my youth... very cute...
Of course, not, it's a very serious business trying to understand how to keep one's eye on someone. Grown ups just don't understand this sort of dilemma!
:-)
Good use of the prompt "eye".
Sayings such as "keep an eye on him" certainly can be confusing to small children AND foreigners to a language. I'm sure there have been other children instructed to do this for their younger siblings who responded similarly over the years.
I was the baby in my family, so I was the one everyone else was instructed to keep an eye ON LOL.
No, no. I still get confused about things that people say.
It's easy to do...
and that's a very sweet baby!
Merry Christmas!
Scarlett & Viaggiatore
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