Adding to our long list of silly responses from harried parents to children who ask what they’re doing, Julie from Hammondsport, New York, says her father’s standard reply was: I’m sandpapering a bowl of soup. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sandpapering Soup”
We got a voicemail from Julie Andreas in Hammonsport, New York, and she said,
When we were kids, and my dad was obviously doing a project of some sort,
And we were silly enough to walk up to him and say,
Hi, Dad, what you doing?
His response would invariably be,
I’m sandpapering a bowl of soup.
Go away, kids.
Scram.
Add that to our long list of the things that parents say to make the kids go away.
Yeah, we’ve collected a lot of those, but I’ve never heard that one anywhere.
What’s the buttons for kittens, britches or something like that?
Yeah, yeah, I’m sewing buttons on ice cream, that kind of thing.
It reminds me of the expression soup sandwich, you know, as silly as a soup sandwich, which makes no sense at all.
Right, yeah.
And that reminds me of a milk sandwich, which is the joke that people always make
Any time there’s a severe weather event and you go to the grocery store
And all the bread and milk are gone.
Oh.
What are people doing, making milk sandwiches?
I didn’t know that. That’s cool.
