Nani Says the Danged'est Things

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So, we're at the eyeglasses shop

looking for a pair of frames

for my new glasses.

A nice gentleman is helping me ...

telling me which ones, he thinks,

looks better on my face.

Without asking for his input ... he's

just volunteering his opinion.

All of a sudden, Nani blurts,

"Mom."

(Oh, and by the way,

Nani never calls me Mom.

So she's exercising "grown-up talk"

by choosing this name for me.

I should have sensed the warning

that "a dandy" was coming up.)

Okay, so back to the story.

All of a sudden she blurts,
very matter-of-factly, 

"Mom. I am fixing to shit my britches."

Thankfully, the gentleman did not laugh.

"Nani Wayne! THAT is NOT nice!"

A peep, "Yes ma'am."

I squatted down, to her level,
and the gentleman tried to busy himself.

I quietly asked her,

"Do you need to doo-doo?"

And, she, not so quietly responds,
"No ma'am, not any more!

It's just tee-tee now."

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