re: #70 Alouette

I’m working on the chapter “How to Guilt Your Kids So They’ll Always Come Home for the Holidays.”

Have you heard the one joke?

A father calls up his oldest son before the High Holidays, and tells his son, that regretfully, after 40 years of marriage he and his wife are getting a divorce.

“Don’t do anything yet, Dad,” his son tells him. “I’ll get my two sisters and we’ll come down. We can fix this, I swear.”

Dad hangs up the phone and calls to his wife. “Linda? I did it. The kids will be here for the holidays.”