{"id":267,"date":"2007-01-24T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T13:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/24\/quite-a-pickle\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T13:49:06","slug":"quite-a-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/24\/quite-a-pickle\/","title":{"rendered":"Quite a Pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"

We do a lot of singing, not just kid songs<\/a>, but also invented songs<\/a> and plenty of classics<\/a>. A little while ago, I found myself humming a strange little ditty by Arlo Guthrie while I cleaned the dishes after dinner.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don’t want a tickle
‘Cause I’d rather ride on my motorsickle”<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, it’s a strange song. I don’t know why I was humming it. I certainly hadn’t heard it in a long time. For some reason, it just bubbled up. Before I got to the end of the first stanza, of course, I noticed my four year old watching me. So I modified the end of the first stanza slightly and really belted it out.<\/p>\n

“…and I don’t want to cry
Just want to ride on my motorcy…cle.”<\/em><\/p>\n

He laughed.”Motor-sickle?”<\/p>\n

I explained the whole rhyming thing. He’s been working on rhyming lately, so I showed him how the tune changed “Motorcycle” so it would rhyme with pickle.<\/p>\n

“Oh!” He said, as if I’d just revealed one of the great mysteries of the universe. “Okay! Let me try!”<\/p>\n

“I don’t want a pickle
I just want to ride on my… motorboat!”<\/em><\/p>\n

What? That didn’t rhyme!<\/p>\n

“Okay, okay.” He said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want a pickle
I just want to ride on my… motorhat!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Now you’re just being silly.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want a pickle
I just want to ride on my… motormouth!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Yep, I got it. You’re teasing me. I get it now.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want a pickle
I just want to ride on my… motorbanana!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Help, help. I’m trapped in the pickle song.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want a banana
I just want to ride on my… motormouth!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay, that’s enough. I’ve got dishes to do.<\/p>\n

He looked at me very seriously, pointed, and said “That’s by Jordan Waterfall.”<\/p>\n

What? Who the heck is Jordan Waterfall?<\/p>\n

But he’d already gone back to his playing, leaving me standing at the sink. Four year olds can be so strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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