I consider myself a mannerly person, and reasonably pleasant. I say please and thank you, as in “Please, son, the fish does not need you to pet him,” and “Thank you, darling, but I don’t care for that particular piece of gum right now, so put it back in the cupholder.”
I try to avoid being [...]
It has come to my attention that some of you people think I make stuff up.
I understand that not everyone’s son uses his father’s stethoscope to listen to the dishwasher running and not all 3-year-olds slap their mothers in the face for forcefeeding them Children’s Tylenol, which I did because she has an ear infection [...]