Questions

Here are some of the questions I've been asked by my tutoring students lately:

Questions that make me self-conscious and paranoid:
Why do you talk like that? Why do you talk like that? Why do you talk like that? Why does your talking sounds like that?

Why is your chin like that? Why does your chin look like that? Why is your face like that?
(Referring to my double chin? My acne? What? WHAT?)

Questions related to my nails:
Why did you get those nails on?
Why did you cut your nails? (referring to my fake nails, which took an entire week to chisel off. I even soaked them in pure acetone repeatedly... never again.)
Why don't you go back to the place you got them and have them REMOVE them? They look TERRIBLE.
(Then today, because all of my nail beds are wrecked from the dumb fake nails:)
Why are your HANDS like that? Why do your nails look like THAT? Do your hands HURT?

General:
Can I just call you Mommy, 'cause I'll never remember your name?
Are we all REALLY brothers and sisters? (I think the correct answer was: Yes, we are, in Christ... But this was what I said: Open your workbook please. Open your workbook. OPEN. YOUR. WORKBOOK.)
Why do you have 2 kids? Why do you have a picture of them?

Why does your little girl have short hair when you have long hair? That doesn't make any sense.

Why did you wear your hair down today? It is WINDY. You always wear your hair UP. But today, it is WINDY and you have it DOWN.

Why don't you have your regular rings on? Where's your marriage ring? (I am wearing a silver ring on my ring finger. No, my marriage is not in trouble. I just felt like wearing a different ring.)

Do you have cats? Do you have cats? Do you have cats?


I am pretty sure that they are asking me these questions partly to distract me from our work.
I never knew I was so interesting or so controversial or so thought-provoking... These kids crack me up. Every single day, they do or say something that makes me laugh.