A Wisconsin listener’s family adopts their youngster’s made-up term for the treads on a boot. Years later, they all still refer to those things as bumpity-scrapples. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Bumpity-Scrapples”
Rebecca Livick from Northeast Wisconsin wrote us to say that her daughter Samantha was about two or three years old when she was trying to get a stone out of the treads of her boots.
And little Sam said it’s stuck in the bumpity scrapples.
The bumpity scrapples. And Rebecca says we’ve been using that term in our family ever since.
That’s about 30 years now. Oh yeah, that’s a instant classic, right? That’s automatically in the family vocabulary.
Bumpity scrapples. Yes, I’m gonna adopt that myself. She says I think the reason the word stayed with us is because Sam’s older brother Kyle just wouldn’t stop repeating it.
And isn’t that how it goes, right? A little kid says something and everybody picks it up.
Pumping these grapples. That’s perfect. 877-929-9673.
