Otherwise known as: You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.”
Things I’d like to say to my daughter’s friend, but don’t: “If you’re that interested in the clothespins that you’ve got them hanging from your ears, perhaps you’d like to take the laundry down from the line and fold it neatly.”
Things I’d rather not have to say to my daughter’s other friend, but do, since he’s a neighbor and I’ve picked him up at school once in the past 2 weeks, in the pouring rain, because of a foot injury: “Don’t you have a sore foot? Should you be doing barefoot gymnastics?”
