Humor at 2:45 AM
6yo Becca came pounding on my bedroom door at 2:45 this morning. I heard her sobbing, groggy voice: “Mom, I have to go potty really bad and there’s something scary by the light. It looks like a… crab.”
I crawled out of bed to rescue her from a scary crab. Thinking I would probably find a big spider next to the light switch, I hesitated and then grabbed the empty paper tower holder. I used it to flip on the switch, and what did I see?
No, not our lost tarantula. Just a hair blower, brought out of hiding now that the weather has turned colder. It was dangling near the light switch, surrounded by loops of its own cord. If I were 6yo, reaching for a light switch in the dead of night, I would have been scared too. Actually, I was. Remember the part about the paper towel holder?
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OK… What in the henfuzz is a hair blower? Do you mean a hair dryer, or a bunch of hair that should be in the trash, but rolls across the floor like a tumbleweed?
Hair blower = hair dryer. Must be a dialect thing.
Now it’s your turn: what is henfuzz?
In the dark many things become scary. I can relate to her little 6 yo scare! Our dialect is definately hair dryer, but the henfuzz is foreign.
i would have been scared too esp. because you have a loose trantuala in your house!
I couldn’t sleep with a loose tarantula in the house. Come to think of it, I’m not sure if I could sleep with a caged tarantula in the house!! YIKES!
I love your new header!
Congrats on the baby by the way!
OK we say hair dryer too, I was reading the comments to try and find out what a hair blower was; I was afraid it was some HUGE spider that spun a type of cord instead of webbing. It only comes out in the winter and it must puff its hair out to scare oncoming attackers! Glad you informed us my arachnaphobia couldn’t have handled THAT!
Henfuzz is the fuzz that grows on hens. =) It is something that my Grandma said, my Mom said and now it falls out of my mouth.
the first thing I thought of was that BIG SPIDER! LOL poor girl!
Hee, hee! We say either “hair dryer” or “blow dryer”, but never “hair blower”…and we live in the same part of Texas, Kim! Where did THAT one come from?
I love the new header picture, by the way. It’s helping me adjust to the new look. The old blog was just a hard act to follow…
Your new header is great!
This post is too cute. Poor girl. I know my little ones have dreamed up some pretty scary stuff out of nothing!
lol… We have frequent potty trips in the night. We haven’t, yet, encountered anything scary… except not having any toilet paper and having to go all the way down stairs in the dark to get some as a sleepy toddler awaits your return on the upstairs potty. ;o)
Thank you for visiting me, by the way. How neat that your husband thought of the ancient coin idea. Brilliant! ;o)
~ Christina
How amusing! Y’all crack me up. I was raised in a hillbilly area of Southern Indiana. So, when I read hair blower, I immediately though of blow dryer. The other funny thing “henfuzz”. I raised chickens when living in Indiana. So, when I read that I cracked up because I knew right away what it was. This blog is full of surprises. Especially the tarantula. LOL Keep up the great stories.
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