I’m watching my nephews today. I love these guys, really I do. But…why is it that every child under the age of 12 thinks all adults want to hear the entire plot of every stupid kids movie that’s come out in the last ten years retold in complete detail, all quotes repeated ten times an hour?

There’s no way out. The conversation begins, “hey, have you seen….”. If you say “yes” then the monologue begins, “oh, then remember when…”. If you say “no” then its, “oh, there’s this one part…” and you hear every “one” part in the entire movie.

Here’s a sample.

“Hey Roby-have you seen ‘Open Season’?”

“Nope.”

“Oh, man there’s this one part when this bear doesn’t know what a tree is and so his friend, who’s a squirrel, tells him but he still can’t figure it out so they walk and walk and then…”.

And it goes on and on like that. And if you stop them in the middle, they start again from the beginning! Incredible. I think I’ll only let my kids watch movies in ten second increments on YouTube once a week. Then at least the story is shorter for the telling.

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