When our granddaughter was just four, she had been using toilets for about eighteen months. One day she is sat on the loo with the door open, and she suddenly asks my wife; "Nanny, how does your new (female) dog wipe her "flower" after she has a pee? My wife as always answers truthfully "She licks it clean". The look on granddaughter's face went from total incredulity to non belief to you are having me on to totally bemused in about two seconds. Now she is three years older and we still crack up with tears in our eyes whenever we think about those couple of seconds.
I can always remember my son used to roll his tongue to make the noise of the telephone. He's 23 now and I still ask if he can do it, he just looks at me in bemusement saying he never done that. Truth is he can't now
My youngest son came back from next door after going over there for tea. He was about 10 or so and next doors son was about the same age but they also had a younger daughter. He was telling us what they got up to then started laughing and said he walked into the toilet to see the younger daughter pulling her pants up. Being parents we of course pretended we were shocked and horrified ....waving hands in the air and giving it "eewww Daniel thats awfull!" kind of thing, to which he replied "its ok though, I didn't see her Thingy!" ME....."whats her thingy?" Daniel..."you know...her thingy" Me.."No...I don't know" Daniel...."you do know!" Me... "can you spell it son?" (trying not to laugh at him by now as he was getting realy anxious. Daniel...." her F A N U" Me....( crying with laughter by now) " Her fanu!" We were now in tears, especialy his older brother who was on the floor. To this day it is "the" family word. Daniel,now 19, refers to people as Fanusians if they wind him up and we still use the "F" word to raise a laugh.
