..."Why is everything a bit with you? Some kind of comedy routine?" And then I look at the myriad conversations my friends are forced to have with me where I'm all "Wokka wokka wokka!" and I hold my tongue. Sorta.
Via Textual Interface on Smart Phones
Me: Would you like a barely used coffeemaker?
Dad: Why? What's wrong with it?
Me: Jill was giving it away because her parents bought her a French press. It has a paperless filter.
Dad: Which has a paperless filter? Why would you want to press a Frenchman?
Me: DO YOU WANT A NEW COFFEEMAKER OR NOT, MULE?
Dad: Yes, if I'm touched I'm touched*. Crabby :p [Ed. note: WHO TAUGHT HIM TO MAKE THAT EMOTICON?! ANDREW?!]
*One of a dozen quotes by Muley, the Joads' neighbor who wanders around like "an ol' graveyard ghost" after all his neighbors have lost their farms to the bank. The Grapes of Wrath. Reading: It's FUNdamental!
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