“I was like, ‘Mom, mom, guess what, guess what?’ and her friend went, ‘Chicken butt!'”
I remember this one time, my mom had a friend over, and I had some things I think I made something or found or something cool, and I wanted to tell them about it. I didn’t want to interrupt her and her friend. I was like waiting for a while, and finally, I ran over, I was like five, I ran over, and I was like, “Mom, mom, guess what, guess what?” and her friend went, “Chicken butt!” And I had never heard this sentence before, I didn’t know what chicken butt — like, I didn’t know that that was a saying or a thing, and so naturally, I just immediately started like sobbing and like crying, and I was — I like ran from the room, and I like went and hid. And then my mom had to come and like console me and tell me this was just like a saying, that like, sometimes people will joke and like, say, “Guess what, chicken butt” and — but I was just like, I felt like whatever I had to share wasn’t important, or like I was being made fun of. And so I was very emotional about it. And so now from that point on, anytime that anyone in my family says like, “Guess what?” someone else will say “Chicken butt!” and then I’ll like pretend to get all emotional about it because you know it just — it really hurt my five-year-old self.