What's the vaguest description your dc has given you?

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Ds (4) has just become very upset as I couldn't remember some flowers he was taking about. The conversation went like this:

Ds: Mum can you remember those flowers?
Me: No, what flowers?
Ds: you know the ones we saw.
Me: when did we see them?
Ds: That day when we saw the flowers.
Me: what color were they?
Ds: ( getting frustrated and eyes filling with tears)
You know those flowers!
Me: ( Trying to keep the peace )
Oh yes, they were nice wasn't they, did you like them?
Ds then throws himself back and burst into tears.

Dd ( who had been sat listening silently)
I think he means those dead ones we saw outside Aldi.

A few weeks back we went to Aldi and there were some dying flowers that ds wanted to buy but I didn't want dead flowers. He must have thought I was being mean asking him if he liked them as he really wanted me to buy them at the time.

Please share your stories of vague descriptions given.

I'd like to say it gets better with age but mine are 8 and they still do that. The best thing is when they try and explain a game to you. The idea that the person you are talking to can't see the wee pictures in your head is one that takes a long time to grasp apparently.

My DD had a great line in naming stuff names that no other bugger ever used for it. I remember one particularly fraught trip through the supermarket at 2 and a bit (she liked to lick all the vegetables, the other shoppers understandably not that keen) where at the end she was in tears going "my beanie weanie things! Where my beanie weanie things?" and she meant those little puffed corn toddler snacks (the ones that are like unflavoured Wotsits) and what's worse is that I managed to figure it out, confirming her belief that if I would just listen properly to her shit explanations I would always be able to give her what she wanted.

My sister had a tearful (and sometimes near hysterical) DD who just wanted to watch “Shooty shooty”. When asked what it was she’d just repeat shooty shooty with the rabbit. After the obvious Sleeping beauty and Bambi we named every Disney film ever made, including ones we were sure she’d never seen to no avail.

Eventually (about 2 weeks later) we put sleeping beauty on and it turned out it was that after all. She watched it doing those little shuddery sobs you do when you’ve been through an ordeal

I’m usually pretty good at reading DS’ mind. We’re waaaaay too alike.

Not my DC but my DH, he is terrible for this. The thing is I usually can work it out, it’s my party trick at social gatherings (remember them?).

That film, you know the one, with the girl.....

That song, you know the one, with the bloke singing......

That shop, you know the one, with the green thing ........

DS does this all the time.

'Mum, can you put on the crazy song with the man' = 'I would like to listen to Livin la Vida Loca please'

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Not my DC but my DH, he is terrible for this. The thing is I usually can work it out, it’s my party trick at social gatherings (remember them?).

That film, you know the one, with the girl.....

That song, you know the one, with the bloke singing......

That shop, you know the one, with the green thing ........

DH does it too, but with mis-information thrown in.

Him: 'you know, that woman from Emmerdale who used to be in Duran Duran'
Me: Oh, you mean Martin Kemp (male, East enders, Spandau ballet)