"It's to keep my shoulders from getting sunburned while I eat my breakfast," she said.
I was gazing at the dishcloth -- black, with nickel-sized pink, yellow, and turquoise dots -- that Martha had draped around her shoulders.
"What I like about being us," I remarked, "is that we're not going to have to change anything to become eccentric old people. We've already got it down."
"We're prodigies!" said Martha.
6 comments:
Eccentricity is grossly underrated.
Sounds very fetching to me.
Now I see where I went wrong -- hope it's not too late. I have spent my life trying not to be weird (to no avail.)
Now I can relax and be peculiar (just like my father.)
<3 x two!!!
Here's to the precociously loopy!
Looney young crones and young geezers, unite! Those big dots do sound rather fetching, as Lucy says.
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