Well It's No Wonder

"You're acting like an old man on Sunday.  Pay attention."

Justin!

• First of all, stop referring to your mother as an old man.
• Secondly, quit harassing her while she's driving.
• In the third place, consider what she's going through.  She had to drive ten miles in the dark - to a winery out in the country - to locate a place that she had never been before - by following directions that you gave her - to pick up you and your friend - accompanied by your brothers, and your father and his best friend who had been sampling their special adult lemonade.  Meanwhile, the only other person in the car that had ever been to the winery before was busy making tasteless jokes in the back seat with his friend, while trying to shout overriding directions through the din when your navigational edict directed her to turn left into the side of a cliff.

A lesser person would have cracked.  There were nine different conversations happening simultaneously even though there were only seven people in the car.  The only difference between that excursion and a clown car routine was that nobody had multi-colored hair.  It's a wonder we all made it back alive.

By the way, you should be so lucky to drive as well as she does!

- 16 August 2012