I ate it.

When I was in high school I was a cute little band geek with cute little band geek friends.  We played our instruments and sang all the fight songs and made fun of the jocks and cheerleaders.  We also spent a lot of time on buses traveling to football games and band shows.  As every one knows large amounts of down time is bad for teenagers.  While select band members slunk away to make out in a corner, my friends and I found new and exciting was to get on people's nerves.  My friend Michelle and I sang Brak songs long and loud enough to make your ears bleed.  Renee and I had hand made sock monkey puppets that we used to joyously announced "Sock MON-KAY!" like Harry from 3rd Rock from the Sun.  (I still have Alihandro.)  Beans coined the phrase "your mom!" for anything and everything.  Which brings me to the all time, irritate the hell out of your parents phrase, "I ate it."  I'm not sure exactly who was responsible for that one but I adopted it and used it copiously.

"I ate it."  Drove my parents crazy.
"Jenn, where is the vaccume?"
"I ate it."
"Jenn, where is the remote?"
"I ate it."
"Jenn, where is your homework and why aren't you doing it?"
Yup, you guessed it, "I ate it."
It's said rather lackluster, completely bereft of enthusiasm.   This phrase drove my father to the breaking point.  Every time I uttered the words "I ate it." (unless referring to food that I was specifically asked about.) I was to run the sweeper.   Needless to say we had the cleanest carpets around for about two months til I could break the "I ate it." habit. 

My children are young and haven't picked up quite the same caliber of obnoxious habits (yet anyway.)  But today I asked Conrad where something was and got a hearty laugh when his adorable little face looked up at me and said, "I eated it."   Yes Mom and Dad, I have children just like me.  Thanks for that curse.

While you're here, go check out one of my favorite Brak songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt0YnVrfzGM