Say What?

The other day, when I got the girls up from their nap, they informed me they had been telling each other stories about how Gaston (from Beauty and the Beast) had fallen in “the spare.”  I kept asking them to repeat themselves, telling them I didn’t understand what they were saying.  Where did Gaston fall?  “The SPARE!”  they insisted.  I asked them to show me the part they were talking about in the movie.  So we popped in the Disney DVD and Becky walked me up to the screen so I would be sure to catch it.  I thought I would be fast-forwarding to the end where Gaston fell off the castle wall while wrestling with the Beast, but Becky instructed me to listen at the beginning.  The narrator came on, telling the backstory of how the Beast came to be in his animal form, and he solemnly intoned: “…and the Beast fell into DESPAIR.”  Becky instantly started exclaiming, “That’s it!  The spare!  The spare!  Gaston fell there, too!”  I guess I should have been listening to “da movie” more closely!