Childlike Excuses

I recently recommended The Lego Movie to one of my coworkers. Because she has a soul, she loved it and now understand why her nephew sings "Everything is awesome!" I needed this win because earlier this month I babysat my two and six year old nieces. The two year old passed out in the first ten minutes and the six year old was using every excuse imaginable to avoid watching.

Even before we got to that point I would tell her it was great, but she would insist that she didn't want to watch it. As the day went on she told me that she wasn't really "into" movies. Then she mentioned that since she watched a lot of movies on the road on the way back from Disneyland, so she was burned out on watching things. Then she mentioned that the color on the TV was looking a little odd earlier and she was worried that watching more TV would make it worse so we should leave it off. Then she mentioned that she saw part of it at her friend's house before and didn't like it.

Being the "adult" of the situation, I said she didn't have to watch, but we would still have it on.When it was over, she told me that she didn't like it. Then kept asking me question like "what's the guy in orange named again?"

After the third round of how she didn't like it, I wanted to smack her, but I also realized that I used to lie my ass off when I was trying to avoid things I didn't want to do. Specifically, I remember in the fourth grade, we had to make up a commercial and act it out on camera. When we had to watch all of them, I would fake a stomach ache when mine came on. I faked a lot of stomach aches when something was on TV I didn't want to see.

I may also be annoyed at the situation since I bought the damn DVD in preparation for her loving it. And in two minutes that cover was thrashed. The bright side is that my sister really wanted to watch it. Man, I watch her kids and she get a bonus DVD. I'm really bad at favors.