Friday, September 09, 2011

The Children's Bread

A title with a theological allusion.  Kingdom points for that.

By now, you and I should be fairly acquainted with the opposites-attract approach to life that is my parents' marriage.  Yet the way it plays out in real life still surprises me.  My family and I are staying at my uncle's for the weekend.  Last night, they had already gone to bed when I found out that the guest bathroom didn't have any shampoo, so I went to the parents to see if they had any.

Mother: Do you have any soap?

Moi: Yeah, there's a new bar of soap in there.

Mother: Just use that for now on your hair.  They're all the same.

Father: I have a bottle of shampoo here and one of those hotel packets.  Why don't you take whichever one you want?

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