Another toot reminded me of a friend of mine excited about his wife being pregnant. He brought sonogram pictures.

So I take the pictures, rotate them, scowl, and tell him, "I think that's a platypus, dude.". Fortunately we're good enough friends that I just got an eye roll.

So, baby gets born, and well, I'm me. I get the kid a plushy platypus. His wife knows how I am, so I just got an eye roll.

Turns out that platypus was actually his favorite thing for at least 4 years. He brought it up to me one day and asked me, "what does it say?" I parsed that as "what sound does it make?", and you answer a kid's questions. Period.

Thing is, I had no idea. So I rotated it, looked at the body structure, and said, "maybe it sounds like (small grunt gurgle)." YouTube was still new, but I found a video, and showed it to him. I wasn't too far off.

He laughed and ran off to his room, making his platypus "speak". Wife tells me, "And that's why we put up with you, Oatmeal."