We're Multitasking While I've Been Away

I'm still officially on a writing break (well, blogging - I've been doing a lot of other type of writing I'll post about in a week or two), but this was short and so funny, I had to record it. Several years ago, I found the neatest book for my Grandmother for Christmas. It was all about where famous phrases originated. "Giving my two cents worth," "He has a chip on his shoulder," "Singing for your supper," etc. It was a fascinating book and recently I asked her to see it, but she doesn't remember it. Just a few minutes ago, though, I got to witness first hand how such phrases might come about. The kids and I were cleaning out our very junked up car after school when the younger two decided to take an unscheduled break (after not very much work). This rather irritated Dalton, who often does more than his fair share of the chores. When he looked over to see the two of them conspiring to remove the wrapper from a small piece of bubble gum, Dalton yelled at them, "Come on guys - you need to help. It IS POSSIBLE to clean and chew gum at the SAME TIME!" I just assumed he was trying to be funny, except that he was so perturbed. So my laughter made him wonder what was so funny. I explained to him that he had just coined a variation of a very famous phrase!