Tips on parenting (you’re welcome)
When confronted with the awkward situation of having a child ask what your beverage is* before they are of an age to explain ‘responsible drinking’ to comprehensibly, you should maybe learn to flex and be ‘creative’ with the truth.
That’s right, I’m asking you to employ critical thinking skills here. For example:
~ Wine magically transforms to *zzzzzing! (that was the sound of a magic wand, thanks)Grown-up Grape Juice ~ You in possession of a mugarita (what we call a margarita around these parts, because a margarita glass doesn’t hold near as much magical agave kool-aid as a frosty, friendly mug does) becomes you holding fiercely on to some
Grown-up Lemonade
….and so on and so forth. You folks get the picture.
I’d like to personally thank my cousin Drop (as in ‘good to the last, then lick the outside of the glass’, but lately more like, ‘catch me, I’m about ta’) for being so polluted at the family gathering recently, thereby necessitating a session of the really fun game known as Rename The Inexplicable No-No Liquid Quickly-Quickly-QUICKLY between me and Maxim. Can’t drink keep a good man down, Drop ole sport.
*Note: also applies to ‘can I have a sip of that, mommy?’ and any and all other potentially sticky queries.
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