Portrayals

Dinner was in full swing and the conversations were beginning to crash into one another.  The noise was escalating to a dangerous level.  In order to derail Justin's current train of thought before it became PG-13, I turned the conversation to school, a real teenage buzz kill.

"Justin, do you have any homework tonight?" I inquired. 

"I already did it," he said, in his most excellent mocking voice.  "And besides, The Annoying One already asked me."

How many times do I have to ask you to stop referring to your mother that way?  No, really.  I can only imagine how he refers to me when he's talking to his mother.

- 14 October 2015