Conversation over dinner tonight with my 21-year-old son Joel
me: I think that was a Freudian slip.
joel: Yeah.
me: Do you know what a Freudian slip is?
joel: Uh...I think so.
me: No, you don't. Do you know who it's named after?
joel: Yeah, that Freudian dude.
me: Yeah...?
joel: ... [blank look from across the dinner table]
me: Ever heard of Sigmund Freud?
joel: [after a slight pause] Didn't he have something to do with white tigers?
me: What are you talking about?
joel: White tigers. He used white tigers. [now uncertain] Or something...
me: ARE YOU REFERRING TO SIGFRIED & ROY??????? The performers?
Oh.my.damn. I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time. What makes it even funnier is that Joel started a web design firm last year. The name of it? PixelEnvy. I asked him a little while ago if he knew what the name of his business was a spin-off of. He did - and correctly answered "penis envy." But he had no idea that was another Freudian concept.
Must.re-educate.young.
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