Monday, February 28, 2011

mad for transformers


My five year old niece, Peighton, is obsessed with Transformers.  She loves Sam because he's "serious".

Me:  You like Sam because you think he's cute, huh?
P:  (annoyed brow furling) No, because he's serious.
Me:  Cute and serious?
P:  No!  Just serious.
Me:  Ok.  Geez.

Her favorite transformer is Bumblebee.  I watched both Transformer movies this weekend (ugh), only so I can keep up with Peighton and her obsessions.  We had the following phone conversation...

Me:  Peighton, guess what?  I watched both Transformer movies this weekend.

P:  Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (very whiny as in “no fair”)

Peighton then proceeds to tell me the plot of both movies as if I've never seen them before.  There was a lot of “autobots” and “decepticons” rapidly flinging out of her mouth in run on sentences.  Finally she had to take a breath so I jumped back in to the conversation.

Me:  Totally.  Yeah, the movies were pretty good.

P:  Did they say a little bit of bad words?

Me:  Yeah, they said some bad words.

P:  Which ones?

Me:  What do you mean “which ones”?  I'm not going to repeat them for you.

P:  Why not?

Me:  (changing the subject) I know you love Bumblebee but I think my favorite Transformer is Optimus Prime.

P:  (shocked and a little testy) Why?!!  You don't like Bumblebee??? (as in, seriously what is wrong with you?)

Me:  No, I like Bumblebee too, but I just think that Optimus is wise and besides that, he's the hero.

P:  No he isn't (getting really annoyed now).  Optimus is dead.  Sam's the hero.

Me:  Yes, but Optimus came back to life and destroyed the Sun Harvester and killed The Fallen.

P:  Yeah but Sam was the one who brought Optimus back to life. (good point)

Me:  Well, that's true.  Ok.  You're right.  Sam is the hero.


So there you have it.  Sam is the hero.  Get it straight.  And don't argue about it.

3 comments:

  1. who is sam?? tramsformers have names like sam, you've got to be joking. maybe sambot or robosam or something like that.

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  2. that kid is something, huh? SimplyGrandpa- Sam is the kid who the decepticons are trying to kill and the autobots are protecting

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  3. that peighton is pretty awesome! She enjoys all the classics such as back to the future and indiana jones, she is really being brought up right!

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