Get it? It’s like ‘Before & After” in Wheel of Fortune. Ok, just laugh and shrug and walk away. On Friday night I was made fun of by a neighbor that I’ve never met, and I haven’t quite been the same ever since.
This weekend I found myself surprised by the following:
- While playing a game of whiffle ball in the park after Matt’s graduation, his father told me that I had great hand/eye coordination. I was shocked and amazed, as was anyone on my high school softball team who might have heard that remark. More proof that father-in-laws are vitally important in building up the self-esteem that the inevitable sleep deprivation associated with child-rearing wears down.
- Matt, after watching Prince Caspian, exclaimed: “I’m not so sure I’d want to go to Narnia if within a few hours of arriving I was engaged in atrocious warfare. I’d much rather just go to school.” I should not have been surprised by this as he leans strongly towards pacifism and prefers continued education to most everything including, sometimes, food and water.
- Seeing unleaded gas priced at $3.73. I frankly do not remember the last time I filled up one of our cars as I spend so much time on the T, but are you even serious? I wonder if our cars would run on milk. Berlin’s milk.
But then today was a typical Monday, so I suppose my equilibrium is slowly being restored.
