Rambling In The Puna2

Friday, August 01, 2008

Please Don't Vex The Dog

Stop Vexing The DogThe truly great part of my life is not living in Peru nor is it working in my work-a-day job. It has been raising five children, each of whom have taught me more than I ever learned in school and brought me more joy than all of the other experiences of my life. perhaps obvious; but this all goes hand in hand with having married the perfect woman for me who I am told frequently by others, that I don’t deserve. I do agree with that but, she got the short end of the stick and life has it’s defects.

The other night, my daughter was plucking her eyebrows and I was hassling her via the dog that I molested into joggling my daughter’s aim. She became more and more harassed and told me to stop. When I feigned innocence she said, “Alright, but you are vexing the dog.” I am not kidding, she said, “…vexing.” She said it with such ease that it made me decide I need to steer her off of the current Jane Austin, Emily Bronte etc. reading kick. But it made us all laugh at her improved vocabulary and I must say, made me appreciate the varied literary tastes of my offspring.