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.”

Foilsick

Zverism

The Kinder Surprise

Suente

On Tenderhooks

Fardle-Din

Hanker Sore

Lilo

Drisson

Fata Organa

Mornden

Dead Reckoning

Mottleheaded

Moledro

Etherness

Lookaback

Hubilance

Amoransia

Ne’er-Be-Gone

Occhiolism

Maugry

Malotype

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Trueholding

Pâro

Fawtle

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase