Why can't you be normal?
I love Utah Phillips, and Ani DiFranco... their combo album is one of my all-time favorites. This story popped into my head today as talks of Milestones happened again in Mommy-land.
So, thought for the night, before I go to bed, thanks Utah!
"We were in the Grand Union, supermarket, getting some food, over by
Greenwich or Cambridge, one or the other, with old Dorothea Brownell,
Morrigan's godmother - now this is education! A little kid was fussing at the
checkout counter, stuck in one of those baskets - it's all the lights in those
places, make kids crazy, we all know that, don't we? Well, and the kid was
fussy, and the parents were ragging on the kid, and... I get them to laugh, and
the parents laugh, and the checkout person laughs.
Morrigan starts punching me in the side, and said - yelling at me! - she said,
"Why can't you be normal?"
And old Miss Brownell rapped Morrigan on her shin - rudely - with her cane, and
said: "He is normal - what you meant to say is 'average.' "
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