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kids grow up quick.
Oh, how true. Our oldest turned 50 this year. Our grandkids are in high school, the oldest will be a senior next year.
My Dad has a daughter turning 65 this year. (Not me!)
So... Your sibling? At least half sibling
No, that would be OP’s nephew’s mother.
My older sister. I will be 58 this year.
I mean, who buys a whole pineapple for a four-year-old?
...OK, yes, maybe for educational purposes, rather than purely to eat. Fair enough.
I want a whole pineapple now
We just harvested our single pineapple. Took a year to grow. It little. It was delicious.
Do you live in the tropics?
So. Florida. Pineapples grow very well here.
Ahhh. I’m in British Columbia, and I have a green thumb. But no green thumb is up to that challenge without extraordinary measures
I have a decidedly brown thumb. My husband takes care of the plants. I give sage advice, choose the plants I’d like to have, and he does the rest.
My wife had a black thumb. She never met a plant she couldn't unintentionally kill. Eventually she learned to just buy them and I got to take care of them.
My thumb is so black...
I look at a silk flower and it unravels
My kids decided long ago, I’m not even allowed to dig the holes!
Watch out for raccoons and greedy neighbors!
Thankfully we have excellent neighbors. Extras are left at the end of the driveway. Or just knock and ask. Everybody got something.
umm apparently not.
Yes, they do. We chose to grow a single one. In the past the raccoons got them. We chose to have one and keep it near the house where the raccoons did not care to come near. Our area was once known as the pineapple capital of the world. They can still be found growing wild.
I started with one from the store, planted the top and several years later, I have 7 pineapples, 1 already eaten and waiting for the rest to ripen. I'm also in South Florida and would love to know where they grow wild still. My hometown used to have a pineapple plantation, but that was lost to development decades ago.
We have found them in the Savannahs state park.
I grew a pineapple indoors in Western NY. Southern exposure window, fierce sun. I moved back to NYC, took the plant with me. I picked up hitchhiking teenagers and one accidentally knocked the pineapple off its stem before it was big and ripe enough to be eaten. It can grow elsewhere.
Interesting. Maybe I’ll give it a whirl
What an accomplishment! I love that you achieved your small pineapple. Gardening is the best.
I bought one at the store for fun last year. It was under $2. I displayed it on my cubicle wall at work for a few days to be funny and then took it home and carved it up and ate it.
Careful with that... displaying pineapples could be quite the experience...
Plant the top. You get a new pineapple at the 2 and 3 year mark, then you must start another top.
You don't have to start a new top. They grow babies off the main plant when the pineapple is growing. That will sprout next year's friut
I got one already cored. So much easier.
you don't eat the pineapple peel? unbelievable
I have five attempts in various containers around my kitchen. I can get them to root but not to survive transplanting
My father bought both pineapples and coconuts to show us how to prepare and eat them during my childhood. I remember the screwdriver and hammer with the coconut, and drinking the milk, then pulling the meat for us to chew. I ate too much pineapple when he taught us how to prepare it and got multiple mouth sores. Thank you Dad, love you.
Mouth sores from pineapple, I thought I was the only one! Oddly, it's only fresh pineapple, not canned.
My dad did the same thing as yours. He was stationed in Panama during WW II, so he became used to them there. He also brought home sugar cane and shelled brazil nuts. Normally, brazil nuts were so hard to crack that you only would up with crumbs or slivers.
Haha! Daughter bought it because she loves fruit too. Her kids eat many fruits, so daughter thought to add it to the list. Her hubby ended up making adult drinks with it.
They will be at our home this weekend, along with some of hubby's family. I went over the list, mainly the fruit salad. I mentioned pineapple and daughter asked who really wants it, as a joke.
My kid just turned 4 today... He regularly asks for pineapple when at the store. Kid likes to eat pineapple!
Anything with pineapple is okay with us!
You'd be surprised... parents like to do things with their children to educate them. Like where does food come from. But also how to see what all is involved just to enjoy a bite of pineapple.
Like everything comes from the grocery store frozen or in cans. And yes, meat doesn't come from the store.
The student becomes the master...
I just enjoy that you’ve named your robot vac. Ours is Hugo.
My family named ours Rosie after the character from the Jetsons.
🏆🏅🎖🥉🥈🥇
Ours is DJ Roomba a la Parks and Rec…
We have a gizmo that crawls around in the pool vacuuming. We call it DJ Roomba.
Ours is called "Dust Slut"
My daughter named hers WALL-E
Our is called Floyd the hoover droid
Ours is a lovely lady, Theresa. She's quite diligent cleaning the kitchen and the corners.
Mine is named Bitch because she never listens and goes wherever she wants and stops all the time.
Damn, my old eyes misread that as "shops all the time" and thought yeah, nothing wrong with that ;-)
We called ours Bumpy because it kept getting stuck in corners and going back and forth
Ours is Evan the Explorer
My parents names ours Mo. like from wall-e
Ours is Shirley (Airplane! reference)
If you get another, please promise to name it Roger or Victor. 🤞🏻
I absolutely love him. Well done, young Padawan!
Hahaha, and he’s only 5. This one is going to keep you on your toes.
You will never beat kid logic! Kids are quicker, harder to catch due to size, and because they keep their adults consistently sleep deprived, can think better than you!!
Please post to daddit!
It's "cue" unless you mean forming a line to wait.
Doh, good catch.
I think queue was appropriate here, given the context
It wasn't. Queue is for lining up to wait. Cue means to give a prompt for action.
It was for those with a sense of humor
I'll take people who know what words mean, thanks.
... it's only humorous because of what the word means and the associated context
Right, but that doesn't make any sense in the context. Or maybe it does: explain please?
It was a sequence of events that drove the OP to impatience, or in other words a line they couldn't wait for it to end. Most likely an unintentional play on words, but an amusing one nevertheless. Written better, it might have made for a funny joke
Ah, that might have been funny, yes.
Kids are little shit heads
I see what he did there.
Mine is called iKitty.
Cue. Not queue. Queue is a line.
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Love it!
Granddaughter is 4 and she said one day, she said she likes pineapple. Daughter went food shopping and brought home a pineapple. Granddaughter asked what it was. Daughter replied, a pineapple. Granddaughter told her, I said I liked pineapple, not that I wanted one. SIL took a moment and said that is totally your side of the family's response.
Enjoy these moments, kids grow up quick.