You say Tomato, I say WHAT?!?

Communication is a very delicate balance.  It is an interaction between people that requires a lot of different functions to come together.  In order for us to navigate through the world, we rely on communication.  It can build and destroy a relationship before even being defined as such. We use skills built early in life to understand language, slang, and external contexts.  When all of these skills come together it is a beautiful interaction.  When they don't, bad things can happen!


After dinner tonight, I decided that we needed to go and have an "ice cream" treat.  We loaded up and went to our local Orange Leaf Yogurt Shoppe. After enjoying our little excursion, we loaded back up in Dain's truck.  Dain was getting Carter placed into his car seat, and this in itself is a chore.  Carter is 3 years old, 43 inches tall and 43 lbs.  All of the car seats say that for his size he should just be in a booster, but again, he is only 3! Carter has the mind of a 3 year old (the smart ass of a 40 yr old) and the body of a 6 year old.  Giving him commands to do something are challenging, but physically making him can be even more so.  In being a good wife (and Southern Lady as earlier explained) I'm in the front seat with my feet hurting from wearing heels all day, and just overall tired from having a cold over the weekend.  The following conversation is what I heard:
          "Carter get in your seat. Carter, I said get in your seat. Come on."-Dain
          ***Rustling as Carter listens and does as asked***
          "I'm gonna dig in your butt."-Carter
          "You're gonna what?!?"-Dain
          "I'm gonna dig in your butt, Daddy!"-Carter
          "What did you say? Why would you say that?!?"-Dain (frantically)


What I know about this conversation but Dain does not, is that Carter is referring to the bottom of the harness in his car seat that typically is under his butt rather than between his legs like most kids.  SO, in order for us to get to it to strap together the 5-point harness, we must "dig in his butt."


Moral of the story: What seems logical to one, can shake another to their core!!