Here’s how it went down when I did a silly new joke with her on vacation:
ME: Peep, will you remember me tomorrow?
PEEP: Yes!
ME: Will you remember me next week?
PEEP: Yes!!
ME: Will you remember me next year?
PEEP: Yes, Tee Tee!
ME: Okay. Knock-knock.
PEEP: Who’s there?
ME: Oh, nooo! You forgot me already!!
PEEP: Tee Tee!! Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeeeeeeeeeee, etc.
Here’s how it went down when I tried it on the phone a month later, just to see if she remembered:
ME: Peep, will you remember me tomorrow?
PEEP: Yes. (giggling)
ME: Will you remember me next week?
PEEP: Yes!
ME: Will you remember me next year?
PEEP: Yessss.
ME: Okay. Knock-knock.
PEEP: (silence, then …) Tee Tee, I remember you! You can’t get me again!
Here’s how the joke went down when she tried it on her brother:
PEEP: Brother, do you fink you remember me now?
BROTHER: What?
PEEP: Will you remember me later on?
BROTHER: What are you talking about? (He’s 15, what can I say?)
PEEP: What about in a year — will you remember me?
BROTHER: Probably.
PEEP: KNOCK-KNOCK!
BROTHER (sighing, it’s tough to have a 6-year-old sister): Who’s there?
PEEP: See? You don’t remember me!!! Hahahahahahahahaha! Right, Tee Tee?
ME (dying laughing): Uh-huh.
BROTHER: What are you two talking about?? I don’t get it!!
that is so funny. she is such a character. (and so are you.)
i love that. fifteen year olds seldom have the patience to tolerate a six-year old sibling’s “jokes.”
AS — I know. And he’s such a good brother to her, but he’s at that age, you know? That moody, somewhat disassociated age. Poor giant baby.
I told this joke to my kiddos. They didn’t get it at first, but then they thought it was the funniest thing ever. My 6-year-old tries to tell it to other people, but somehow it gets lost in translation. Nobody seems to get it.
I’ve so got to try that w/ my six year old and then have her use it on her older sisters.