{"id":235,"date":"2008-07-25T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-07-25T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T10:00:50","slug":"spiderman-loves-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Spiderman Loves Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a little background here…<\/p>\n

For those of you that don’t know, the “I love you” sign in American Sign language is the same hand-shape Spiderman uses to shoot spider string (or web) from his wrists. The orientation of the hand is just a little different. Here are some images to illustrate my point.<\/p>\n

American Sign Language: “I love you”
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Spiderman shooting webbing from his wrist. Notice his hand shape.
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Spiderman’s “I love you sign” – In this image his hand is even oriented closer to the correct position for an “I love you” sign.
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Ok, now that we are all well educated… I have a story. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Last week Bridget and I were at Sam’s Club getting a few items. There was a young boy at the register next to us with his mom. I’d guess he was about 4 years old. The boys kept shooting spidey string from his wrists at Bridget (obviously just pretending) and making shooting noises with his mouth.<\/p>\n

Bridget watched him intently for a couple of minutes. I wondered what she would do, or if she even understood what he was doing. She just studied his face and hand motions for a minute, then she raised her hand and gave him an “I love you” sign.<\/p>\n

The boy looked a little confused. (Perhaps thinking she’d done the spider string wrong??)<\/p>\n

On the way out of the store Bridget looked up at me and said, “That boy over there said he loves me.”<\/em><\/strong> I about died laughing. But for a 2-year old girl with very little exposure to Spiderman, how else was she supposed to interpret it.<\/p>\n

Classic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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