I have kinda been in a major push to spend more time with the family lately. (Getting in the way of my Camaro time. :() But.....priorities.
Any way, here is a little tid-bit from my daughters files.
When she was 2 or 3 I can remember she kept asking if she can have some "fits buts". I would ask her over and over again what she wanted. I had no clue what 'fits buts' was. Parents, you know what I'm talking about.
Any way, eventually she showed us what 'fits buts' was. We were getting Rebecca out of the car at the mall and she had something in her hand. (You, know. They got something clutched deep in their fist and you GOT to know what it is) Any way I heard Bonnie ask her "What do you have"?
Now, I was just kinda listening from the other side of the car on the outside and I heard Rebecca say "FITS BUTS" .... I freaked out. Holy Crap, Rebecca has fits buts and now I get to see what it is. FINALLY. After all the times she was crying and asking for this DAMN fits buts and I could never provide it for her, FINALLY I could see exactly what she was talking about. So I dash around to the other side of the car to see what it is. We pry her hand open, to her extreme displeasure, (after all, it IS fits buts) and what do I find?
A nickle and two pennies.
So.......now.. I...know?........Fits Buts? ..............
AAAhhhhhhhhhhhoooooowwwwwwwwwwwww! Ok so now I know. I remembered not long ago, Rebecca learned that you exchange Money for merchandise. (stuff) She had seen us do this on numerous occasions. So we recall an argument me and my brother had not long ago where we were settling up after a nicke and dime poker game in which I owed my brother 'SIX BUCKS' and had to pay him. Well I was clowning around and told Jake (my brother) that I refused to pay him the six bucks in question but I'd be willing to hand the six bucks to Rebecca and let her give it to him in order to preserve the understanding that I did not hand over six dollars to him. (ego thing)
So from that moment, to Rebecca, six bucks didn't mean 6 dollars but to her it just meant 'Money'. From there on ALL money was called six bucks. But of course being 2 she couldn't speak well yet so she did her best and said 'fits buts' ......"I want some fits buts". "Can i get fits buts"? "
Whaaaaaaaaaaaa, I want some FITS BUTS".
Ahhhhhh so now I knew. And to this day, we all say fits buts when talking about money. She's 12 now and needs a lot of fits buts for movies and the mall and stuff. Gotta love em'