kids just want to have fun

 When I was elementary-school age I would watch Bewitched reruns on TV in the mornings - it was on, back-to-back with That Girl.

        Sometimes if something particularly funny happened in one of these shows, I would go and tell it to my mom or dad - find them, mom in the kitchen, maybe, dad in his study, if he was home.

        I would hurriedly set the scene:  'this is happening, and they are trying to solve such-and-such a problem, and Darrin said this, and then Endora said that!'

        ...Then rush back to the living room to continue watching the show.

Second-hand television:  what a concept.

        I remember in one episode of Bewitched I had to hurry up and tell my dad that after Darrin said something, Endora said (in this theatrical, grand tone of voice which I tried to imitate) - "The fountain of trivia runneth over!"

I had heard my dad use the word trivia, before.  

And the word "runneth" was like in the Bible where they say verbs with the "t-h" at the end - "he maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he restoreth my soul"...

        Not that we talked like that in real life, but in church where the Bible was read from, and quoted, and we little children memorized passages ... I thought Endora's line was funny, and church-related, so my dad might like it.

Know your audience.

        My parents must have wondered sometimes, "How did we give birth to such a rambunctious child?"

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