Say it with me kids: Ep. Ic. I want the second one on my wall. Right next to this one.
Anyway. This one took place a couple of days ago walking down the hall before just before school started. I ended up walking with a third grader who shall go by Eric.
Eric: Miss Leslie, what year were you born?
(side note: it's a good thing I've been answering to Leslie since practically before I knew my name was Lacey!)
Me: Guess. (one day I will finally learn better than to ask this question - but the ego boost when they say 16 really outweighs the blow when they say 45! Also - this would be the point where I worried briefly that this one would go the same way this conversation went last year.)
Eric: Nineteen . . . ninety . . . five?
Me: (laughing) No . . .
Eric: Ninety-two?
Me: (insert actual year which I'm not stupid enough to put online like this here)
Eric: (gets all excited and hopeful sounding) So you were alive when the first Star Wars movie came out?!
Me: Well, no, that was in 1977. A few years before I was born.
Eric: (all disappointed) Oh. But you saw them when you were a kid, right?!
Later in class we had to talk about how Episode 4 was the first one to come out. I knew I liked this kiddo for a reason. :-) Does it count if the person who thinks you could pass for 16 is a 9-year-old?
Seriously, I love my job.
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Just to complete your Star Wars overload. My fellow nerds (and you know who you are) will get a kick out of it just like I did.
Guessing the kid....
ReplyDeleteI have three Star Wars fans in my class... S? C? G?
love love Star Wars! And yes, I saw the original one when it came out back in the day..
ReplyDeleteYou know I get called Leslie a lot too... and Stacey and Lisa? whatever.
Katie - S.
ReplyDeleteLacy - I answer to Leslie, Lindsey, Casey, Tracey, and Stacey. I've gotten Tacey a couple of times because there used to be a girl with that name in my parents' ward. I have yet to get Lisa, though.
Yes, I'm a star wars fan ... sometimes too much of one. And yes, you're younger than me, but never once have I thought you were born in the 90's.
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