What do you say when someone stands between you and the television? Some people say, “Were you drinking muddy water?” Another option: “I can’t see through your bay window!” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Drinking Muddy Water”
We are still hearing about our conversation about what parents say to children when they’re standing between the parent and the TV.
Oh, yeah. Tons of those.
In fact, it brought out of the woodwork my brother.
Were you the one? Were you the one standing in front of the television?
Oh, I hadn’t thought of it. Yeah, actually, there are photographs of me doing that.
Now that I think about it. But now my brother Wayne wrote me from North Carolina to tell us what our Aunt Mazo used to say.
Aunt Mazo.
Aunt Mazo, she’s back.
I feel like I know her.
I know, right? Because you know her language.
Wayne wrote me to say, when we got between Mazo and her TV, she would yell, I can’t see through your bay winder.
So almost all of these have to do with the kid not being as transparent as they think they are.
Exactly.
And your bay winder is sort of your gut.
And Marvin Wayne tweeted us from Mexico and said there that if somebody’s blocking the view,
They say the equivalent of donkey meat is not transparent.
Donkey meat is not transparent.
Very good.
La carne de burro no transparenta.
Well, there’s no end to it.
What do they say in your house when somebody’s blocking the view?
Email words@waywordradio.org.
Thank you.
