This is the one that surprised me a little.

Posted May 21st, 2010 by Mike Lawson

I work with kids.  I think you know that.  In fact, with a few exceptions, most of my jobs have been working around children.
It’s one of those things that has just happened and isn’t on purpose.  And as a result of being around children all day every day, I have found that I sometimes think like them or are sometimes more interested in what they have to say than the adults around me.  It’s totally fucked up and a shrink could probably unravel this a lot better than I’d ever be willing to let it get unraveled, but that’s not the point of this post.

The point is that I was in Target the other day and I heard one eight-year-old yell to his eight-year-old friend “I love this movie…have you seen it?”

And anyone who knows me knows that I have trouble staying out of conversations regardless of if I was invited or not.

So when I heard the kid say that he liked a movie, I turned my head to see what movie it was…totally expecting to see them gawking over Iron Man or Avatar or something that kids are into.  But instead, the eight-year-old was pointing to this movie:

I’m serious.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  WTF?

Really, kid?  You liked the movie set during World War II…about the non-Jewish boy who finds friendship with the Jewish boy (in the “striped pajamas”) on the other side of the fence?  What about it stimulated your little boy brain?

Bless his heart.