Simeon: I don’t know what this plastic thing on the counter is, but when we have a boy it will make a perfect G.I. Joe boat.
Carrie: You mean my Longaberger basket liner?
Simeon: I guess so.
Carrie: Wait, can’t Ana use it for a G.I. Joe boat?
Simeon: Hmmmm…maybe. Or she could use it as a Barbie coffin.
Carrie: Why cant Ana play with GI Joes. I played with GI Joes.
Simeon: Yes but you were raised as a boy.
Carrie: I played with my little ponies too.
Simeon: yes, a gay boy. thats why you married a man.
Ahhh yes, and my husband shares the rest of the conversation. Thanks babe for keepin’ it real!
ALRIGHT you two…
It’s cruel to make me laugh when I’ve thrown out my back and can’t move my head because it makes my fingers tingle and my vetebra stroke their neighbors with all the love and gentility of a bowling ball greeting it’s friends the Pin Family.
I love it.
And yeah, girls that are raised as boys can play with GI Joes. However girls raised as girls should play with My Little Pony, Barbie, and Cabbage Patch. The only thing I ever did with Barbies was pull their heads off and I made Cabbage Patch dolls be the giants in Horrible Pony World.
It was fun!
Ha ha ha, I love "the rest of the story…." Sim. You guys are too funny. I used to play with both Barbies and GI Joes, but that may have had to do with the fact that I had a little brother, so I had access to both. The thing I remember most about them is how my brother, when he was really little, used to bend the barbies over and make them into guns, and then, when he got older, how he would melt the GI Joes and fuse different bodies and body pieces together to make these scary mutant monstrosities. Then he’d display the horrors on his shelf….charming isn’t it? Ah, little brothers….. God help you Ana if your parents make you a brother…