The Kinder Surprise

The Kinder Surprise

n.
the point in your early adolescence when you realize that your parents are muddling through their lives the same as you; that many respectable adults are no less lost than you and your friends, no less petty and obsessive and insecure, which makes you wonder if there are no real adults, because such a thing never actually existed, except in bedtime stories.

German Kinder, children. Refers to Kinder Surprise, a foil-wrapped chocolate egg that contains a small toy that’s already broken into pieces. Pronounced “thuh kin-der ser-prahyz.”

Fata Organa

Suente

Bye-Over

Feresy

Sitheless

Mottleheaded

Semaphorism

Dolorblindness

Fensiveness

Lilo

Fawtle

Incidental Contact High

Falesia

On Tenderhooks

Antiophobia

Hickering

Drisson

Watashiato

Pithered

Punt Kick

Mimeomia

Burn Upon Reentry

Hobsmacked

Agnosthesia

Wytai

Star-Stuck

Mottleheaded