7/17/2007: Marianne Completes "Pete and Repeat"

Well, I started this one with the first child I saw after learning I was going today. Lucky for him, my 14 year old was the closest person to me. I told him I had a riddle for him and then said the riddle. He said “Oh, I get it.” then walked away. Oh to be 14 again and know everything. Anyway, that’s where I’m sure he would have liked the fun to stop but like any good mom, I wouldn’t let it go. I followed him around and said it a few more times to get some kind of reaction but the only reaction I got was from my 4 year old, who by the way, did not get the answer right and thought Pete was in the boat. I told her a few more times (changing it slightly so she could figure it out on her own) and when she finally got it and said “Repeat” I repeated it. By repeating it, she thought she got it wrong again and just confused her and I started to worry she’d have learning problems so I gave up and told her it was a riddle and that repeat meant ‘to say it again’ and that’s the joke. She caught on a little, thank goodness, and we went in to tell my husband our funny riddle. He caught on right away and played along for the 4 year olds sake and I am happy to say she laughed and thought it was funny as can be and is now still repeating this riddle, over and over and over again. Fun stuff.
Having had enough torturing my 14 year old and my 4 year old busy torturing my husband, I set off to find my 16 year old, after all no sense he shouldn’t be part of this. I called him away from his video game by stomping on the floor. We have a system around here, when we can’t find the teenagers, we stomp on the floor and they magically appear from the cave they have in the basement. (It took training but works like a charm.) When he came up the stairs, I didn’t tell him I had a riddle, I just socked it to him. He fell for it and said “Repeat” so I did, and then he answered again “Repeat” so I did, and then he said “Repeat” and I started to say it again but he interrupted and asked “How many times can you do this?” So I finished the riddle without answering his question and he tried to answer me by spelling the answer this time but didn’t do too well because he said, ”R-E-P-E-T-E”; that’s when the mocking started and he tried to quickly correct himself by saying, “R-E-P-E-A-T”, but it was too late, we all heard it and continued mocking him. He said “Did you call me up here for this, I’m controlling the room for Call of Duty, there’s something wrong with all of you”. I asked him to spell ‘Call of Duty’ and we laughed some more and then he went back down to the cave.

He would like me to clarify for all of you that he DOES know how to spell repeat but that he was trying to joke and spell Pete by saying r-e-p-e-t-e. By including this sentence he said it does not change the fact that I’m writing it and still doesn’t like it.

One of my sisters stopped over and the timing couldn’t have been any better because the only one left in this house to tell the riddle to was the baby. I told her the riddle and she said “Repeat” and I did, then she said “How many times are you going to do this? Dad used to say that riddle all the time. ” I don’t recall my dad saying this riddle but it wouldn’t surprise me if it were true because I am MUCH younger than her and she probably remembers things more clearly than I, the MUCH younger sister.

Her son, who is 15, had come with her and it was around this time that he decided to pipe in and ask “What?” Fool. I then told him the riddle and with a very confused look answered “Repeat?” Then I repeated the riddle and he said,”Ah. I get cha” then waved me off.
This wasn’t so bad, it was actually pretty fun. I don’t have any pics because for one I don’t really want to post my kids on the web and two, they wouldn’t let me.