[During typically dismissive
conversation between self and spouse about such silly phrases as ‘blue sky
thinking’ and ‘thinking outside the box’.]
12-year-old
son: “So many people think ‘outside the box’ these days that if you think
‘inside the box’ then you are, in fact, thinking ‘outside the box’ ”.
We had to stop the car so that we
could be really modern parents, i.e. worship said child, take a photograph to
mark the occasion, blog his comment, and smile beatifically about the wisdom
and insight of our genius offspring.
Abnormal service will
be resumed shortly.
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