The Great (non)Escape

This afternoon, the phrase "I'd rather owe you than cheat you out of it," sprang from my mouth like a disobedient lab--one minute it's sitting docile at your side, the next it's chasing after a rabbit. It was at this moment that I realized..."Heavens to Betsy!" I'm my parents. Of course I've had these thoughts before: while watching a movie, when the little byline comes on "this show has been formatted to fit your television" and you say "How did they know what size of a TV I had?!" and "If a frog had wings, it would bump it's butt when it jumped." Mostly, these are things which my dad said, and, as a child, I immediately cried out: "Dad, you're such a Dork!" Well, I always knew that I was a dork, so, no surprise, I think it's knee-slapping funny when I use these same overused idioms today. I even throw a little snort into my laugh when I say them (which, I've decided, also came from my dad, and not from when my roommate Vicki and I would snort just to laugh about snorting like I originally thought). So here's to carrying on the "dumb" sayings of our parents, and gravity never pulling the apple just a little further away from the tree. :)