My kid's a big nerd.

[Maddy McCall]

What is it about boys at 11? Does some recessive nerd gene suddenly get triggered and force them to act out by doing stupid, embarrassing stuff to their parents?

Today, I went into the small grocery store in my hometown; my son waited behind in the car...or so I thought.

As I was rounding the third aisle, he came running up behind me, talking loudly in his Elvis voice, "Hey, Gladys, buy me some benanners and peanut buttah so you can fry me some sammiches, uh uh huh."

When I turned around to scold him about being so loud, I nearly keeled over. He had on his huge black Elvis wig with a freaking camp fork sticking out of it. People gathered at both ends of the aisle to look at him.

I didn't know whether to send him back to the car or to pee in my pants from laughing so hard.

Has your kid embarrassed you in public lately?

[datasuspect]

1. yer kid

sounds freakin COOL!

[Maddy McCall]

3. Freak...

yes, I'd agree that he can be a freak at times. :-)

[AlCzervik]

2. thats hilarious!!! Your kid has an excellent sense of humor.

This wasn't embarrassing but i thought it was funny as hell, my daughter and i are waiting outside of my husbands old office building and out comes a guy in a three piece suit, slicked baked hair and he's giving the thumbs up to a woman waiting for him in a car , so my husband comes out and i tell him what we saw and he says well maybe he's a salesman so i say he didn't have anything with but a binder, no sample case or anything so my daughter says...."Mom, maybe he's a binder salesman"

[Maddy McCall]

4. LMAO!

Smart girl! Don't you love the way that they see things so differently than we do? Ah, to go back to that childlike clarity, unimpeded by adult baggage. :-)

[CottonBear]

5. He's not a nerd - he's a comedian!

I've only ever embarrassed my stepdaughter. We've always thought we were cool designer-artist-rock n roll musician parents, but, apparently, we're not cool enough!

[Maddy McCall]

8. How old is she?

I'm wondering when he'll start being embarrassed to hang out with me in public. :-)

[CottonBear]

14. She's 16 now

but we began to embarrass her at about age 11 or 12. She still likes to hang out with us. Once though, she made her dad promise not to wear a certain outfit to the father-daughter Valentines Day dinner/dance! I'd put out a nice outfit for him but he decided to dress himself. Bad idea! (I usually dress him for family occasions!) He's an artist and musician and a really cool guy. However, you don't get any credit for coolness from a teenager. Your kid sounds like he's great! A sense of humour will take you far in the self-esteem area.

[jhain]

6. Does tap dancing in Lowe's count??

Took my 70 yo Mom to view the brand new Lowes store. 22 yo dd was home for the afternoon so she and 12 yo dd came along, too.

They are INSANE together.... My poor Mother.
At one point the girls were tap dancing down a main aisle each holding a big, black rubber doormat.

Sigh....

I can tell you this much - they would WORSHIP your Elvis person!!

[Maddy McCall]

10. Bwahahahahahaha!!!

My kid would have been in awe of that. At Lowes, he always makes me bet the cart with the baby seat, so that he can sit in it and suck his thumb and baby-cry when we pass other shoppers.

It's a good thing that we parents have a good sense of humor, isn't it. :toast:

[Igel]

7. Inhibition. Kids lack it.

Makes them dangerous once they get independent and large enough to do serious damage.

Tell him to enjoy it while it lasts. Soon he'll be bringing home his latest significant other ... and you'll get to embarrass *him*!

[Maddy McCall]

11. I've got the photos to do it. :-)

[Igel]

19. We have mpegs.

Gonna be fun to have them playing in the background ... ;-)

[Danmel]

9. My son did the Monty Python SPAM routine at Costco

Last year, when he was 9! He walked up to these total strangers at Costco and held up a 6 pack of SPAM and started doing the whole routine....


Would like some SPAM? You can have Spam, eggs, bacon and SPAM...and so on...complete with mock British Accent. Fortunately they got it and laughed!

He is a deeply goofy boy.

[Maddy McCall]

12. Hahahahaha!!!

Sounds like we need to have a "kids of DU" meet-up. :7

[MuseRider]

13. Awesome kid!

Wow. Does he want my Elvis shirt? I have a nice tee shirt that has a pic of Elvis and the caption is...I'm Dead. Very tacky, it was a gift.

[Maddy McCall]

15. You do NOT have that shirt!!!

I have been looking for that shirt since 1990, when I saw a guy with one on at July Jam in Jackson, Mississippi. Please do not tell me that the Elvis on your shirt has neon eyes.

That is the coolest shirt EVER. :7

[MuseRider]

16. No neon eyes

but I do have the shirt. I think my neighbor got it when she went to Graceland. She got it somewhere around the area. I BEGGED her for it. I wear it occasionally but have to be kind of careful where. It is always appreciated at my symphony rehearsals.

[Maddy McCall]

17. Thank you for reminding me about that shirt.

I am going to google and see if I can find one like the one I saw at July Jam.

I was with three other friends and we were, um, slightly intoxicated, and we got on an elevator with a yuppie looking guy wearing the shirt. We all saw it at the same time and we laughed for I know an hour about it.

Still, today, when we four are all together, someone mentions the "I'm Dead" shirt, and we all fall out laughing.

Truly a GREAT novelty shirt. :thumbsup:

[MuseRider]

18. I do love it

but it is tacky. I begged her and she wrapped it up for me. I am thinking I will hang it up somewhere in my office since I am afraid I will mess it up somehow. Yes, I LOVE it.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

20. I can only imagine who my son will be at 11 years old.

He's currently 2 right now.

[Maddy McCall]

21. This may sound silly...

but my son's personality has been consistent since he was a baby. He's always been kind of naughty, in a silly way. And the laugh that he had when he was a baby is exactly the same as it is now, except it's just from an older voice box.

What is so funny to me is that when he is amused, I can see the same twinkle in his eyes that I saw in his two-year-old eyes. Even though they grow up, some things about them never change.

:-)