Don't Judge. I was just curious....

Have you ever wondered what the conversations of your kids are like when they are on the phone?  I have a 10-year-old who--very much like her father--is not a phone talker.  But she has this adorable little girlfriend who calls her everyday.  I have always been curious what in the world little girls talk about on the phone.  I may or may not have eavesdropped on their conversation today.

 

If I had, however, eavesdropped this is HYPOTHETICALLY what MAY have transpired:

 

Hali: Hi, C..  Hang on while I go find the cordless phone so I can watch TV while you talk.  (No, I am not kidding.)

 

{Hali enters my bedroom looking for the cordless. I, of course, am asleep on the bed.  She cannot find the phone.  That may or may not be because it is underneath my pillow. }

 

Hali: I can't find it. 

 

C:  {Giggle giggle} So what are you doing tonight?  Maybe you or I could come over.

 

Hali: {crunching noises}

 

C:  What are you eating?

 

Hali: {still crunching} Fri {crunch-crunch} tos.

 

C: Oh!  That sounds cool.  {Giggles}  That is a really cool sound.  I have so many bruises on my feet.  There's one and then another one and, oh!  Another one!

 

H:  {Crunch}

 

C: So, do you like Ashley?

 

H: {Crunch}

 

C: Hali, are you there?

 

H:  Huh?

 

C:  What are you doing?

 

H: Watching iCarly.

 

C: Oh.  I hate iCarly.

 

H: {Crunch}

 

C:  Um...so do you like that Angela girl?

 

H:  What Angela girl?

 

C:  You know!  Angela!  In our class!

 

H:  Hang on.  I gotta get some water.

 

{C .giggling and singing to herself while waiting for H to return}

 

H:  I'm back. 

 

{About 5 minutes of silence.  I may or may not have been about to hang up until I heard...}

 

H:  Hey, C.!  Stephen is wearing boobs!

 

{What the...?  Boobs?  Did that word just come out of my Hali's mouth?  What the heck is she watching???}

 

H: {Gasp}  Soandso is about to kiss Suchandsuch!  {Hey, I don't watch the show and forgot their names!  Hypothetically.  IF I actually were eavesdropping.}

 

Mom:  HALI!  WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING??????   TIME TO GET OFF THE PHONE.  I NEED TO CALL SOMEONE!

 

H: C., I gotta go. 

 

C: Why?  I just called you.

 

H:  I know but my mom said I hafta get off.  I gotta go.

 

C:  {Huffing}  Am I on speaker phone?  If I'm on speaker phone I will never talk to again or be your friend for the rest of my life.

 

H:  Bye, C.

 

C: Bye.

 

 

And now I may or may not be wrestling with the fact that I want to tell my daughter it is rude to chew and crunch while talking on the phone.  And it is also not very polite to ignore the other person on the phone and watch TV while they are talking to you.  But if I did that she would know I was listening on the other phone.

 

Hypothetically, of course.