“Mummy, LOOK! I’ve got two hookers!”
~Oliver, who stood in my bedroom and shouted that at the top of his lungs while waving a pair hangers in the air. I was *this close* to lying on the hall floor and crying with laughter when I heard him screaming – excitedly – about his two hookers.
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On my last post, some of you asked me what Canadian Tire money is. Here in the Great White North we have this chain of stores called Canadian Tire, which is basically a jack-of-all-trades store that sells everything from lawn darts to car tires to cleaning products. They’ve got this in-store currency called…wait for it…Canadian Tire money that looks a lot like our currency (read: its pretty colours, like Monopoly money!) and can be put toward purchases from the store. It’s kind of a pain in the ass because they give you like, five cents of Canadian Tire money on a fifty dollar purchase, but I have been known to walk in to a Canadian Tire (or a Trasn n’ Can, as my mum used to call them) and put eighty-five dollars worth of Canadian Tire money toward a power drill.
I hardly ever save the stuff anymore – I usually end up giving it to the kids so they can use it as play money.
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26 Comments, Comment or Ping
I’m not sure I would’ve been able to resist lying on the floor and shrieking with laughter. :)
April 11th, 2008
Something Oliver just can’t yell while bouncing on the bed when he’s 20.
April 11th, 2008
Hey! You can totally buy Hookers at Canadian Tire. I saw them there the other day…a dozen for $4.98 Tell Oliver to keep saving his CT money.
April 11th, 2008
I would have also fallen out.
April 11th, 2008
I adore small kitchen appliances so I heart crappy tire.
Oliver must have had a hooker in each hand. LOL. He’s a peach!
April 11th, 2008
Oh yeah, I would have lost it
April 11th, 2008
Good thing you didn’t drown in your hysteria!
April 11th, 2008
The worst thing about being a kid is you never get the joke.
I think that’s one you shoudl use for your speech at his wedding.
April 12th, 2008
heehee…hookers….
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April 12th, 2008
You are funny. You should move to LA and do this full time!
:)
April 12th, 2008
I’ll be seein’ YOU soon!
April 12th, 2008
lol!
hey, we just came back from canadian tire. did you know that the mint in ottawa makes canadian tire money? that’s how precious it is to us. (i went on the tour.)
April 12th, 2008
I totally bought most of a power drill for Misterpie with CanTire money! I think I had about $75 or $80 in it to burn. Awesome.
And I bet next time Oliver’s screaming about having hookers, in a dozen years or so, you won’t find it so funny…
April 12th, 2008
LMAO… hookers.
April 12th, 2008
LOL! My son calls them hookers, too!!
His latest thing? He wants a hoe. For gardening, of course, but verbally, it’s so much more fun for his dad and me.
“Mom? I want a ho(e)!”
“Some people already have hoes – I want one too.”
“When can I have my hoe?”
April 12th, 2008
two hookers. he’s my kind of little dude.
April 12th, 2008
I’m so Canadian that I forget that there are people out there who don’t know what Canadian Tire money is…
So great to see you last night!
April 13th, 2008
Hahahaha!!! Two hookers!
April 13th, 2008
Hey, St. Kitter, this was my first post:
http://denguy.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-have-five-year-old.html
April 13th, 2008
Hookers! That’s hilarious–that’s a story you’ll remind him of one day that will embarrass the crap out of him!
April 13th, 2008
Hookers. Nice. LOLOLOLOLOL
April 14th, 2008
If anyone needs an “I love my Hooker” sticker like the one on my trunk, it’s Oliver. I think I’m going to search Ebay now. ;)
April 14th, 2008
you must have needed a garbage bag to bring in $85 worth of crappy tire money. Love it!!!
April 14th, 2008
I love the innocence of kids! That is just too funny. Too bad he did not say that out in public! :)
April 14th, 2008
I AM on the floor laughing. Lucky me, I don’t have to explain the joke to Oliver.
Thanks for explaining the Canadian Tire money thing. Sounds kinda like the old Green Stamps. Those were some fun!
April 14th, 2008
If only hookers were that cheap and available. So many happy men…
April 14th, 2008
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