I. This morning, driving Daughter to school: <\/p>\n
Daughter: Dad, you drink Coke. At which point I begin to wonder how much of this she may have announced to the Primary, and whether the qualifier “root” was used at any time . . .<\/p>\n II. Last night late, helping wife with sewing project.<\/p>\n “Can you run to Wal-Mart quickly and pick up some things for this?” Which is how I ended up standing in line with a big biker dude who had a Harley shirt and long scraggly hair and tattoos, and was buying liquor. I was right behind him, with my shopping basket full of bright pink and yellow bias tape (they were out of black, and I had called back to find out what to get instead). It was a slow-moving midnight line that lasted at least ten minutes, and I was certain that at some point, biker dude would notice the guy behind him with the basket of pink ribbons — at which point, he would probably kick my butt, just on principle. <\/p>\n Biker dude never looked back. I survived. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I. This morning, driving Daughter to school:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMe: Yes, I do sometimes.
\nDaughter: Coke isn’t good for you. We talked about that in class.
\nMe: (Nods.)
\nDaughter: Beer isn’t good for you, either. We talked about it on Sunday.
\nMe: That’s right.
\nDaughter: You drink beer too.
\nMe: (Pause) What!?
\nDaughter: (Repeats, very seriously) You drink beer, Dad.
\nMe: I don’t drink beer, Daughter.
\nDaughter: Yes you do. I’ve seen you drink beer.
\nMe: (Curious about where this is going) Well, I drink root<\/em> beer sometimes.
\nDaughter: (nods, vindicated) Yep. That’s the kind of beer you drink. Beer isn’t good for you.<\/p>\n
\n“Sure.”
\n“Okay, I need four packages of black, quarter-inch, double-fold bias tape . . .”<\/p>\n