April 6th, 2007

When very young children try too hard to act nonchalant

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Apropos of nothing (but perhaps filed as an addendum to the “stories from school” category), I was reminded of a story from the aftermath of the Nisqually Earthquake that struck Seattle in 2001. Mind you, this story is fourth-hand by now, but it’s still cute. A young student, whom I will call “Billy”, returned from school the day of the earthquake (which struck in mid-morning). Billy: “Hi, Mom. I’m home.” Mom: “Hi, Billy. Anything interesting happen at school today?” Billy: (trying to sound nonchalant) “Nothing much.” Mom: “What about the earthquake?” Billy: (surprised) “Who told you about the earthquake?!”

Update: Corrected Mom’s question. And I deleted all the comments arguing about religion. If you want to debate child rearing, do it somewhere else.

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Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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