reasons i love my lovely wife: day 25
I will admit it — I “speak” for the Large One and the Small One. And My Lovely Wife talks back to them. The Large One calls her “Mum”. The Small One calls her “Mummy”. These conversations can be quite detailed.
Every few months, this will happen:
My Lovely Wife: You know, they can’t really talk. They’re cats.
Me: Then why do you talk back?
My Lovely Wife: [Pause.] I like to talk to my boys.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Interesting blog!
We’d love to have the chance to review it on our new site!
We’re looking for bloggers willing to be our first!
January 29th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
I used to make people laugh by doing voices of my cats. The cats swore horribly, the nasty things. Terrible manners.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Swearing cats - ooh, I like that idea. They may not be able to talk, as we would interpret that term literally, but the certainly might TRY to talk, and definitely manage to communicate what they want regarding all important matters (= food)
We talk to our dogs all the time - we actually get responses we interpret as relevant, the sly turn of the head, running to the back door, running to the food bowl, a bark….
January 29th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Are “changed voices” involved in this process?
January 30th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Diva Dee: Hey, by all means. Review away. My psyche should be strong enough to handle it. (*shiver*)
Alison & g-dog: Ours don’t swear. But the Large One is extraordinarily manipulative. (Yes — regarding food.) He is especially prone to the tactic of — if one of us got home before the other one — pretending that he hasn’t been fed in days and the other parent was viciously lax and he needs to be fed now or his life will end by the time he counts down from 10-9-8-7…
RJ: No. They’ve been neutered. No change.
January 30th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Oh oka– wait… What?
January 31st, 2007 at 12:13 am
hey - but I thought YOU were speaking for the cats - and a similar reason would just be a TMI moment. I thought what suldog meant was, “Sween, as you are channeling the small one (or the large one), is a different voice or other vocal quality used to convey their message to your wife?” Obvious benefit, the voice character automatically conveys who is being spoken for, vs. you have to say “The small one wants the litter box cleaned” or “the large one says ‘feed me — now’”…. Just one other interpretation.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:44 am
Yes, the two boys definitely have different voices that convey their very different personalities and — I hate to admit it — intelligence levels.
The Large One is a soooooooooper genius.
The Small One… well, he’s pretty.