On Friday, Barack Obama gave his first press conference. There’s a television in the lobby at Benevolent Dictators, Inc. It plays the business news all day but broke for the press conference. When it started, everyone got up from their desk and went into the lobby to listen. Everyone. Even the people who didn’t vote for him (and at Benevolent Dictators, Inc., there are quite a few).
I couldn’t remember the last time people gathered around a TV to watch a George Bush press conference. Come to think of it, I can’t recall President Bush ever giving a traditional press conference whereby he made a statement and then took questions from reporters. So this was a real treat. And I don’t believe people were watching and thinking to themselves, “Oh, there’s our new black President.” I think they were concentrating on the content of the conference with little thought about the pigment of his skin. At least, that’s my Pollyanna wish.
Me: Big yawn.
7-Year Old Daughter: Yawns. Dad, yawns are contagious.
Me: That’s true and nobody knows why.
7-YOD: I think I know why. When someone yawns, the yawn flies out of their mouth and goes up the nose of someone else and makes them yawn.
That’s not possible, right? Because I find that disgusting.
Exile on Pain Street 
It’s an Obama dawn and an Obama day….and i’m feeling good….i would love to be a fly on the wall during his discussion with W today.Actually I think 7yo daughter is right…we learned that in nursing school…we learned a lot of gross stuff in nursing school 🙂
Kids say the darndest things ;)I also took her statement to mean she has demonstrative proof of the elusive, microscopic yawn fly (close cousin of the dust mite) that spreads yawns from person to person. She may have a future in microbiology.
That IS disgusting and she needs a beating.Everyone knows that yawns are transmitted via the ticks on rats.Pearl