Last Sunday, two days after Valentine’s Day, Sean came into the living room where I was seated and sat on the couch. Once he sat down, I looked at him and asked if he remembered, I think he must’ve been about 10 maybe 11, and we were at CVS by our house and I was tired. We had to get something that we always got and he knew what to get so I asked if he could pick it up by himself and I would wait in the car. I gave him my debit card and he knew what to do. Just before he got out of the car, I asked him to get me some dark chocolate, like a candy bar or something.
When he was 10, I was dieting pretty hard and I very rarely ate any kind of sweets, but as I said, I was tired. Well, he went in and got whatever we needed, Band-Aids or something and he came out with this:
I gave him a crazy look because I couldn’t believe that that was the chocolate that he chose. He got in the car and told me that it was, “Like a dollar?!” it was probably five or six days after Valentine’s Day. I saw his face and I kind of laughed and told him, “ Well, you know I am going to have to eat it! I will need your help!” He laughed and I’m sure that is what he was banking on.
When I asked him if he remembered it, he did and told me that it was, “Like $1.30.” I laughed and told him that he has some crazy memories from growing up! As he was sitting on the couch, he asked me if I remembered changing the radio stations in the car. I looked at him quizzically and knew that he was going to tell me something from his childhood so I waited for him to speak.
He told me that whenever we were in the car, I would constantly change the radio stations trying to find a good song, actually, the best song that was playing. I would start changing stations and if I liked a song, I would still search the other preset stations. If I found a different song that I liked better, I would yell, “Trumped!” and the song I liked better would be the song we would listen to.
I laughed when I heard him tell the story because he vividly remembered me doing this all of the time. You need to learn that there is a hierarchy of songs that exist in the world! I appreciate that I taught him that! He told me that I need to do that again. I told him that I no longer drive and am very rarely in my car so it really doesn’t work! I like hearing that he remembered that I used to do this! He told me that I have always been good for some, “Quirky memories!”