Conversation overheard

Background: Tomorrow our son has a much-anticipated play-date with a new friend from the gymnastics team. Past experience with his sister is that when he has a friend over and she does not, she can be a bit, um, shall we say, pesky.

So the conversation went like this:

Jared: Um, Emma, tomorrow when Nathan comes over and we're in my room ... can you try not to keep opening the door and closing the door and ... uh, bothering us?
Emma: [innocent, bewildered look upon her face - no audible reply]
Jared: Really, Emma ... you know how sometimes when I have friends over, you come and open the door and say, "Hi!" real loud and then close the door?
Emma: [nearly inaudible acknowledgment of this behavior]
Jared: Okay, Emma ... please?
Emma: [delivered with a straight face, flat affect, and only the slightest hint of a smirk in her voice] And no putting naked Barbies under the door?

At which point I couldn't help but to interrupt the negotiations with my laughter. And so it was agreed - no naked Barbies.

She's subtle, this one, but you've got to admire her ability to put the 'pesk' in pesky.