Carry the Plank
June 23, 2007
Driving home tonight after a delicious meal, my daughter, spontaneous as ever, looks up at me and in her best pirate expression growls; “Arghh! I’m a pirate!”.
What followed was a conversation between a three-year-old pirate, her parrot Steve and me, her “Pirate Daddy”.
Zoe: Arggh! I’m a pirate. You are a pirate too.
Me: Avast, ye scurvy sea dog! Y’best walk the plank.
Zoe: Okay. Daddy, this plank is heavy. I can’t carry it.
Me: (laughing) I said walk the plank, not carry it.
Zoe: I put it down here. That was so heavy, Pirate Daddy.
Me: Shiver me timbers! Where be your parrot, Steve?
Zoe: He flewed away! In the sky. Argggh!
Me: Yar! Next time keep an eye on Steve. A pirate isn’t a pirate without his parrot.
Zoe: Hand me a map. We need to go there. (points) And where we’re there, we then go here.
8 comments
Awesome.
by Joshua Lane on June 24, 2007 at 11:36 am. #
Yeah. It’s no secret that I think Pirates are the cats pajamas. I think everyone has a extreme fascination with something, be it fantasy like Harry Potter or Star Wars or more historically based events like the World Wars.
I happen to think pirates rock (and I’m sure most of the general public do as well) because there’s such a dark, rich, magical, mysterious, treacherous and adventurous vein to pirate culture.
Plus, three-year-old pirates are just funny.
by kartooner on June 24, 2007 at 12:33 pm. #
Reminds me of a similar in-car conversation with my 4-year-old daughter, driving through our village in mid-December admiring the Christmas lights:
Me: Look at that house!
Her: Aah, pretty.
Me: And look at that one.
Her: Aah, pretty.
Me: And there’s another one.
Her: Aah, pretty.
Me: That one has a skull-and-crossbones flag in the window!
Her: Argh, me hearties!
by Matthew Pennell on June 25, 2007 at 4:52 am. #
I think the kartooner.com readers collective is about to demand a picture or video of Zoe dressed in pirate garb, doing her best Jack Sparrow impersonation. Girl’s got talent, I tell ya
by beto on June 25, 2007 at 1:30 pm. #
Excellent.
by James John Malcolm on June 26, 2007 at 12:52 pm. #
HAHA Pirate Daddy!
That’s something my daughter would say… Kids are a classic when they are that age.
by SEO on July 10, 2007 at 8:12 am. #
You are a lucky man
My girls just wann play with and talk about dolls — barbies. No cool pirates, just dolls 
by Andreas on August 24, 2007 at 7:50 am. #
Hey Kartooner!
That is so cute!!! The plank is too heavy? lol I miss my little babies. They are still fun at a much older age, but I really miss those days when we could just be silly with each other. I remember playing “pirates with my daughter when she was 4 or 5.
:O)
by Dui on February 21, 2008 at 8:59 pm. #