Wednesday, June 18, 2008

With Friends Like This…

Last week was my birthday. (We talked a bit about this a few weeks before the actual date, remember?)

I had lunch with some friends and though the free lunch was great, I wasn’t all that excited about their collective gift to me:

Mostly because when I got home I had to have this conversation with Ellis:

E: What’s this, Daddy?

J: Um.

E: Daddy, what is it?

J: Do you really need to know, Ellis?

E: What is it?

J: It’s a birthday gift I got from some friends at lunch today.

E: What’s it for?

[Me, ignoring her, hoping she’ll lose interest.]

E: What’s it for?

[No such luck.]

E: What’s it for?

J: It’s a medicine for helping you go to the bathroom, Ellis.

E: Do you need help going to the bathroom, Daddy?

J: No, but apparently my friends think I might.

E: Why do they think that, Daddy?

J: Because they are mean and hateful people, Ellis. If you ever meet them, run away as fast as you can.

I think as a thank you to them I’ll bake them a nice batch of brownies with that stuff as the “extra-special, makes-them-taste-VERY-YUMMY” flavoring.

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