Bloodlines
Yesterday I had to reprimand my 9-year-old, again, for being a smartass and talking back: to his teacher, to the afterschool ladies, to his sister, to his mother, to me. (A little wise talk can be appreciated, even admired if it’s clever; a surfeit is annoying.)
Then this morning my wife decided to do a little personal sharing with him. She told him that she’d been reprimanded the night before at work for speaking back to a supervisor, and that his father, me, “can’t keep a quip to himself. So I know where you get it from.” Instantly, I said, “You should always quip while you’re ahead.”
I’m thinking this kid has more grief ahead of him.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Child-rearing aside, for that pun you should die and be buried in an un-marked grave.
November 9th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
…well yes, he does if he concludes that he can out-snark you. Because frankly, I haven’t seen anyone who can. and I’m someone that sat there and watched you go up against a panel involved in the production of “Natural Born Killers”. Frankly, I believed then and still do that you had the better arguement, and had the decency not to let go of it. Out-snark you?, methinks not so much, forsooth.