A Nolan Story

Now this might not be funny to anyone else, but it was hilarious to me at the time, and I am still smiling about it....

Today I sat with the daycare while Carrie went back to the doctor. (She has a lump in her neck that is not going away, and the doc is watching it--she will have it biopsied if it hasn't gone away in 6 weeks.) So I am sitting on the couch with Nolan and one of the daycare kids, Aden, watching the movie Madagascar. If you are not familiar with it, the characters are all animals. So about a half-hour into the movie, I get up to look for the case to the movie, because I can't figure out whose voices are a couple of the main animal characters. Aden asks me what I am looking for, and I say, "I'm looking for the case, because I want to see who are the people in this movie." I sit back down next to Nolan and study the front and back of the case and can't find any names. I set the case down between Nolan and me, and Nolan picks it up and studies the front of the case which has all the animal characters on the front--must be a dozen or so of them. After looking hard at it for at least 30 seconds, he lays it back down and says very matter-of-factly, "Grandma, there are no people in this movie."

I am thinking he must have been thinking ,"How dumb is Grandma? We have been watching these lions, zebras, giraffes, hippos, and an assortment of other animals for half an hour, and she can't figure out that there are no people in this movie??? Poor Grandma. She's not very smart."

:o)