I'm in a Band

I bought Gavin's teacher lunch today and sat with Gavin and his buddies for lunch.  Here's how the conversation went:

Gavin to Peter: Ask her!

Peter: So, um, I play guitar and Gavin plays the drums so we thought we would start a band. But Gavin can't move his drum set so we were thinking we could meet at your place to practice.

Me (stifling a laugh): Oh really, a band huh? And what is your band called?

Peter: The Death Band

Me: The Death Band. As in we will die if we listen to your music?

Peter and Gavin laugh.

Me: What songs do you know?

Peter: Um, I don't remember.

Me: Mary Had a Little Lamb?

Peter: NO!

Me: So you are going to have a band with just a guitar and drums? Who is going to sing? Jackson? (Who was sitting next to us listening and smiling.) Jackson, so shy, shakes his head no but with a huge grin.  He always greets me with a hug each time he sees me at school, but he never says a word to me.

Then the conversation changed to Minecraft, which I quickly steered to something else (BORING). Peter responds that he is really good at jumprope and I sing the song "Cinderella Dressed in Yellow" if you remember that from school. I said, "But that's a girls song. You need a song for boys. What if you practiced writing one?"  I think The Death Band found their new lead singer when Peter starts out, "Prince in Blue, lost his shoe, stepped in poo..." You imagine where this went from here in a fit of giggles. I laughed with them, I absolutely love boys and their humor. I said, "See you just learned how to write a song for your band!"

I am seriously considering the possibility of death if I invite "The Death Band" to come into my house to practice just to see how this all turns out.