Bop-It To The Next Generation
Home | Louisville, KY, USA(My fourteen-year-old cousin is visiting for the weekend. I’m 26. This exchange takes place while we’re watching videos together.) Cousin: “Do you know what ‘Bop-It’ is?” Me:...
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Restaurant | USA(My cousin and I are out to lunch, just chatting and catching up. Both of us are married. I have a toddler and she has a set of twins who are about a year younger than my son.) Cousin:...
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Home | Charlottetown, PEI, Canada(While visiting my cousin’s house, this conversation comes up.) Me: “Did you hear they recently found a dinosaur tail embedded in amber?” Cousin: “Dinosaurs didn’t...
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Family Gathering | Lithuania(I’m talking with my two cousins at a family get together back when we were 10-12 years old. Suddenly, one of them changes the subject. For clarification, my dad used to...
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Home | MA, USA(My cousin and I are female and too old to be having this conversation.) Cousin: “When I worked for [Company], we got CPR training. We were paid for the first two hours, but not for the...
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Home | CT, USA(Some family members are discussing mementos of our deceased pets.) Mom: “I have some of my horse’s baby teeth and a piece of his mane in my jewelry box.” Cousin: “I keep a few of my...
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Video Game Publishing | FL, USA(I work for a company that publishes video games, which is a job my husband’s family, mostly being non-gamers, don’t really seem to understand but are supportive of...
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High School | NorwayI’ve just gotten a bowl of nachos at the counter and am on my way upstairs to our table when someone on their way down reaches out and snatches a chip out of my bowl. I turn around...
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Restaurant | NM, USA(I’m a waitress and my aunt and uncle come in with their great grandson, eight, and great granddaughter, six. Their grandson is my cousin [not the father of above children] and he’s...
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