Something funny. Hehehe!

I was going to write one post about the 2008 Candidates and the funny thing that happened on retreat but the political part became so long I decided I should cut it up in case people chose not to read all of it. They would have missed the funny part :-)

As promised, here is something funny. This weekend I went on a retreat with the young adults from my new church. On Saturday night we had a "soiree" which did, of course, include wine and beer (Catholics like their alcohol). No one got drunk or anything like that but there was at least enough alcohol in people's systems to make the game "Social Security," from the 70s, a huge hit. I was sitting at the other end of the table playing Flux but it was hard to ignore the Social Security players. From what I gathered, this "cooperative" game consists of moving around a board that looks a little like the Life game board, picking up cards with some sort of subject or something, and then spinning the candy cane spinner that has a question (the candy cane was apparently a quick fix by the last person who owned the game). Then the person answers the question or talks about something. (Examples of these things are questions like "Is it okay for parents to spank their children? Is it okay for children to spank their parents?" or "Talk about your pet peeve")

How this game actually works luckily does not affect the funny story. After that big group moved on to play other games, a couple of us were talking about some of the questions. We got on the subject of whether or not parents should punish their children for swearing if the parents swear a lot around their children. The people I was talking to were of the opinion that it is never okay for children to swear so they should be punished. My answer and the ensuing reply was as follows:

Me: "Well, I'd say if the parents are swearing around the children, the children should be able to swear around the parents. Parents are supposed to be the example of how to behave so the children should not be punished for following their lead. In fact, children swearing at their parents would probably quickly teach the parents to be a little more circumspect and not swear so much."

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L: "Are you the youngest?"

Me: "Yes... How did you know?"

L: "Youngest children always make the most logical sounding arguments about things like this."

I found this very humorous and a little freaky at how well she pegged.