Tuesday, February 06, 2007

YOU ARE

John and I have a new game we’ve been playing for way too long now. The game is the well known “No, you are!” It goes a little something like this:

John: The dogs’ feet are cold
Me: No YOUR feet are cold

Me: My muffin is soggy (by the way, I’ve never said this in my life)
John: No YOU’RE soggy.

Now though, we’ve gotten so entwined that we have to say YOU ARE instead of YOU’RE when we really mean it.

John: Ooh, this chocolate is so sweet
Me: No YOU ARE sweet

Sometimes grammatically it doesn’t work out, but we do it still:

Me: Wow, our living room smells like peaches (again, never have I said this)
John: No YOU ARE smell like peaches.

Anyway, you get the drift.

So the other night, there’s this one:

Me: My diet coke is flat
John: No YOU ARE flat

To which I answered:

“You can’t even get me with that one babe, because the only thing flat about me is my voice and my ass.”

Heh.

3 comments:

Kate said...

We play a variation of that game, too! In ours, the sentences just get shorter and shorter. An example:

Me: These shoes smell funny.
Brian: No, YOU smell funny.
Me: No, YOU.
Brian: No, you.
Me: You.
Brian: You.
Me: You.
Brian: You.
Me: You.
Brian: You.

Etc.

matt said...

In my mind Kate's game ends like this:

Kate: You.
Brian: You.
Kate: Yo.
Brian: Yo.
Kate: Yo.
Brian: Y.
Kate: Y.
Brian: Y?
Kate: Because I said so.

Kate said...

Ooh, like that ending, Matt! In fact, I like anytime I get the last word. Yay.