On kids avoiding tele-marketers, etc.:
“Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.”
— Sloane Crosley (I Was Told There’d Be Cake)
On the birds and the bees:
“I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information…my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of ‘loving each other very, very much,’ explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn’t hug my father for two months.”
— Sloane Crosley (I Was Told There’d Be Cake)
Crosley also started one of my favorite blogs – Sad Stuff on the Street. People send her pictures of sad things on the street and she says funny things about them and posts them on the internet. Umm…genius?
