Mom: Stop bouncing around, there are other people here.
Girl: I can’t, I’m too excited for school!
Mom: (fixes something on a baby’s carriage)
Girl: How come David doesn’t need to go to school?
Mom: David’s too young, he’s only two years old.
Girl: But he needs to learn things too!
Mom: He’ll go to school when he’s older like you.
Girl: Well I hope he hurries up and goes to school because I
don’t want a dumb brother.
I heard this dialogue on the D train one morning. It took
place between a mother and her daughter, who looked to be in pre-school or
kindergarten. I thought this dialogue was really cute, because it showed that
this little girl not only cared for her brother’s welfare, she also knew what
she wanted and she was on a lookout for the future. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t
this perceptive when I was 4. The mother also seemed very amused by her daughter;
she probably never imaged her child could be this smart about what she wanted. I
think this dialogue is humorous because you normally don’t get to see a young
child acting like an adult. It’s very impressive and adorable at the same time,
and even though she didn’t say something funny, humor is induced by the things
she’s saying as who she is, and the way she says it.
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