Paul and the Family

Brian has started to really pick up on expressions that we commonly use. Some of them got picked up from movies, and some of them from us, I’m sure. The thing is, most expressions don’t actually mean what their words literally mean, so Brian’s interpretation of these expressions can be humorous at times.

Some examples:

• “I have an MRI.” (pointing to his eye) “This is my MRI.” - Interestingly, he’s decided that only one of his eyes is his M R “eye” and he will correct you if you point to the wrong one.
• “In the mean time” - he uses this when he’s talking about a time, perhaps earlier in the day, when somebody was mad at him (i.e. the time when they were “mean”).
• “In the first place” - when he’s looking for something, or when we’ve been to more than one place, he uses this to refer to the “first place” where we looked or went. He’s also adapted it to create new expressions, like “in the next place” and “in the last place”.