Overheard tonight at the (current) Kjel.org HQ while waiting for the CFO to get home:

Intern: [on ground, being sat on by Stinkboy] EEEEEE!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!! EEEEEAAAAAhhhhhhhhhh!!

CEO: [glances over at the pair, notices the AK’s predicament] Stinkboy! Get off your brother, you’re smashing him! Remember, be gentle — he’s just a baby!

Jr VP: [with a have you always been this stupid Daddy? look on his face, very calmly] But Daddy, I’m a Baby-Smasher.

I think that part of him fully expected me to respond with Oh, sorry to intrude. Go about your business then. Good day sir. He’s an official “Baby-Smasher” after all. Who am I to judge?

I judged; with some effort the lads were separated and no one ended up getting injured. It’s only a matter of time before a member of Kjel.org has one or more bones broken after that person is jumped on/trampled by/body slammed/hit with a bat/kicked/and-or pegged by rocks thrown by another Kjel.org member. I just hope that when it happens the CEO is not involved in any way.

More dialogue from today. Keep in mind that to an extent we try to limit the Jr. VP’s movie watching to times when the lad is extra stressed (like if a babysitter is at the HQ) or times when the CEO is extra stressed (such as when I have to watch the boys solo at the HQ for an extended period of time). Neither was the case this evening:

Jr VP: [3 boys in a car pulling out of the parking lot at ’school’] Do you like movies Daddy?

CEO: [Daddy preoccupied with trying to take a left on Vermont without killing the lot of us, not really listening] Sure, whatever.

Jr VP: [hoping to sell me with his enthusiasm] Great! You’re right Daddy! Let’s watch a movie when we get home! Yay Mr. Incredible!

I almost let him watch one just to reward his effort at strategery. I didn’t though — he’s got to actually out-strategerize the CEO before he gets to watch the random weeknight movie that I caught him angling for tonight. The over/under on Stinkboy actually succeeding with such a gambit is 5 and one half months. Smart money is on the under.