This piece about kids and their lemonade stands is killing me. If you’re like me, you will be wiping away tears of laughter at the end of it. This piece is a sheer joy, a gift, the pick-me-up you need even if you think you don’t need a pick-me-up. Trust me, you do. Kids just kill me, I tell ya.
Some favorite things from the article, no context until you read it, of course:
“Rebecca is freaking.” (The kid is 5.)
“OREONADEOL.” (Hahahahaha. That is so crazy.)
The use of the phrase “start pouring.”
When “SAM” gives his financial advice. I love SAM.
Oh, and his “classy combo.”
The side service of “fortune telling.”
“One, two, three, four, I’m tired.”
Just please do yourselves a favor and read it. It’s short and hilarious and, honestly, I’m still crying with laughter about it. I cannot get over OREONADEOL. I will never be over OREONADEOL.
Please read so we can discuss OREONADEOL — and the rest.
The doctor put my grandfather on Oreonadeol for his prostate.
I know — it totally sounds like that.
“Nurse, I need two cc’s of OREONADEOL, stat!”
It just cracks me up — the little boy brain. I mean, you look at that word and you KNOW only a little boy could have thought of that: “Oreo and lemonade together? Naturally, it’s OREONADEOL. It’s not Lemoreo or Oreolemo or something lame like that. Nope. We want to focus on the “nade” part of lemonade.”
Hahahahahahaha. I’m sorry. I just can’t stop laughing whenever I say it or write it.
Oreonadeol–it’s a “classic combination,” apparently. It’ll make you feel good. . .
This is hilarious! Obviously, $.25 is best because if your allowance is a dollar you can get a “classy combo”, even if you are a hobo. “No customers were hobos.”
I also liked learning how to make lemonade… “My family took lemons and squeezed and squeezed. We were sweating.” Too funny!
OREONADEOL!
Kristina — The allowance bit was hysterical. Like, if your allowance WAS just a dollar, naturally, you’d blow it all at once on a massive lemonade binge: “You will be able to afford four classes.” Yes, so please pour me four glasses immediately. I love that kid, how he’s already “packaging” his product like a salesman.
“No customers were hobos.” Hahahaha. I love that whole exchange between the brothers. The way they banter like an old standup duo.
Yeah, I loved the line: “We have a lot of customers, and a few were hobos.” because I get this mental picture of some guy who looks like Emmett Kelley’s Sad Clown walking up to the stand, wanting lemonade, and then turning out his pockets to look for change and having a moth fly out….
OREONADEOL does sound rather medicinal. Or maybe it’s the name of some new male model – “Have you seen OREONADEOL? He’s hot this year!”
That was great! My kids have set up several lemonade stands over the last couple of years and have made bucks.
The best was when Brianna also made homemade chocolate chip cookies and sold them for a quarter. One of the moms in the neighborhood told her son that he couldn’t buy one because that was too expensive.
Kathi – she has to raise her son’s allowance! At a buck a week, he could buy four!
My first anniversary is coming up. I think I’ll buy my wife a bouquet of oreonadeoli.
ricki — hahahahaha.
Kathi — a quarter for a choc. chip cookie? I am all OVER that. It’s a good old-fashioned bargain is what it is.
NF — Yes, do tell me how that goes over. 😉