Bad birth relived in Waterview tunnel
David from Pakuranga writes: "Regarding the woman who leaves drawers, cabinets and doors open ... She is probably claustrophobic, like my wife. A further expression of this condition is my wife's inability to drive through the Waterview tunnel where she becomes so anxious – regardless of who's driving – that we no longer travel that way to visit family. I remarked on this to a friend and he said, "Oh, she must have had a difficult birth." Well in fact, she did, was oxygen-starved and barely survived. My friend then related how, when he and his wife were manoeuvring a bed through a narrow doorway, their 6-year-old daughter burst into tears. She'd had a difficult birth, too."
Re-named by rugrats
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"My 2-year-old thinks Siri is called Seriously. She picks up my phone and yells, "Seriously! Call grandma!" at the screen."
"My son renamed the ladle a 'souper scooper'."
"My daughter calls a single slipper from a pair of her slippers a 'slip' and I'm never correcting her."
"My kid couldn't think of the right word for Hush Puppies shoes so renamed them 'quiet doggies'."
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"Snot is 'sneeze gravy' in our house."
"My daughter calls her thighs ... wait for it ... leg holders."
