Kyle & Owen's Playground Pickup Lines

I try to avoid doing a lot of shopping with the boys because they are so bad in stores with me. They have never liked shopping; they just aren't the type. And the threat of leaving the store does not work for them since their goal is to leave the store. When I have to bring them with me on errands I often commit that critical parenting sin: BRIBERY. I'll say, "If you're good I'll give you a cookie!" or "If you don't act up in this store I'll push you in the cart over the speed bump in the parking lot!!!" or -- in extreme situations, such as yesterday (I had a ton of errands to run) -- the big one: "If you're very, very good I'll take you to McDonalds!!!!!!!" McDonalds for them is all about those indoor playgrounds that they have. They couldn't care less about the Happy Meal (although they do like the chocolate milk), their love of "Ronald McDonalds" (as they call it) is purely about their love of those crazy plastic indoor playspaces. So, they were incredibly good all morning shopping and it was time for the big reward. We got the 'food' (if you could really call it that), got settled at a table situated right next to the playground thing, the boys took one sip of chocolate milk and took off to climb. The place was packed with lots of other people just like us: mothers running errands bribing their young kids with McDonalds for lunch. I was sitting so close to the playspace that I could see and hear a lot of what was going on in there. Often I could hear my boys trying to initiate conversations with other kids. At times I was actually laughing out loud at what they would say to these kids (most of whom had this response to my boys chatter: they would just stare blankly at K & O and then run away)... Here are the top three Playground Pickup Lines I heard my boys use yesterday (none of which were successful):

1. "We saw a PT Cruiser! It was white! Did you see a PT Cruiser?!"
2. "Do you want to look out the window with me and my brother to try to see a Mini Cooper?"
3. "This is my brother. He's my brother. He's not your brother."