“I have to kill your mother,” Margie said to me.<\/p>\n
“Oh.”<\/p>\n
“Or your father. Or maybe both.”<\/p>\n
“Um … why?”<\/p>\n
“Guess what I woke up to this morning …?”<\/p>\n
My folks went to Scotland late last year. One of the things they brought back with them was a stuffed teddy bear playing the bagpipes. Except that if you press on the bag, a little music chip with the same robust, full-bodied tones that you’d expect from a greeting card tinnily bleats out the tune to “Scotland the Brave.”<\/p>\n
And day before yesterday we were unpacking from our trip, and I found the bear, and put it in Katherine’s room.<\/p>\n
And we have a baby monitor in there.<\/p>\n
And Katherine knows how to work the bear.<\/p>\n
So, far too early this morning, guess what Margie woke up to?<\/p>\n
Dee-dee-dih-deet-dee-dee-dee …<\/i><\/p>\n
I think I’ll let Margie keep focusing her fury on my folks for this one, rather than me, thankyouverymuch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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