You remember the television show “Kids Say the Darndest Things?” Art
Linkletter had America in stitches with his question and answer sessions featuring children picked from all over the country. Well, we’ve been polling kids as well, this time the topic is marriage advice. Here are some of the answers we found:
“Even boys have something to say if you look at them long enough.”
“It’s better for girls to be single but not for boys. They have to have someone to clean up after them.”
“The rule goes like this: If you kiss anybody, you have to marry them. It’s the right thing to do.”
“On the first date, boys and girls just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.”
“A man and a woman-only after they are answering the guys questions- promise to go through sickness and illness and diseases together.”
“Most men don’t have any brains, so you might have to try more than one to find a live one.”
“Marriage is when you get to keep the girl and don’t have to give her back to her parents.”
When asked how their parents first met:
” They went for a drive, and their car broke down…It was a good thing, because it gave them a chance to find out about their values.”
“My father was doing some strange chores for my mother.”
And the last word on kissing:
“You should never kiss a girl except for if you have enough bucks to buy her a ring and her own VCR, cause they all need videos of the wedding.”
“Never kiss in front of other people. I might be willing to try it with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours.”
“It’s never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you
“The law says you have to be eighteen.”
And the other gems you will want to share with your spouse over coffee in the morning:
“No one is sure why people like each other, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.”
“You’re supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn’t supposed to be so painful.”
“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, It takes too long.”
“I’m okay with love as long as it doesn’t happen when The Simpsons is on
television.”
“I have been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me.”
(This young man was seven)
“My mom and dad got married when they were old, I think they were in their
twenties.”
“You have to be careful when you take your wife to the doctor because even if she’s going to be okay you still have to pay them.”
And my personal favorite:
“Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck.”