Vocabulary…yes I know.. beat the horse, beat the horse, beat the homework horse..

Yes, I know, but spare me this one ok? Today we were doing “our” (oh no I did not just say “our” in reference to my son’s homework?) homework and he had 3 vocabulary words.

1. career

2. comfort

3. service……

We were on a roll too. Since Walker’s teacher wasn’t there today they apparently didn’t even go over this stuff. I don’t know what they did but next time my son has an eye appointment at 3 PM and we get to school and find out that the regular teacher is out, he is suddenly going to have an appointment earlier because how freakin’ ridiculous?

For one, the parents are sent home a full notebook of “crap” for the entire year. One would think that a substitute could at least look that much up and go over that. And hey, if all else fails, I’ve entered the whole freakin’ agend on the first grade website. What the heck?

Anyway, back to vocabulary and enough horse beating….

Me: What does career mean?

Him: I don’t know really…is it kind of like…I don’t know.

Me: What does comfort mean?

Him: It’s kind of like…you know…like my bed covers are not soft enough….

Me: erm…..not exactly….

Me: What does service mean?

Him: Oh that’s an easy one, that’s how you know if your cell phone is working or not.

Me: bursting internally from the desire to laugh but knowing better….he is a sensitive kid after all…..

And as if that were not funny enough alone…I sent a text message to 3 people about that dialogue over the word “service” and all 3 of them sent me a message back saying something to the effect of “actually, that is the right definition”

Now what?