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Good News and Bad News
Remember that "riddle" from long ago (I distinctly remember its being the subject of an All in the Family episode -- before I was born, of course) involving a father and son in a car accident? The father is killed instantly, and the son is Medivac'ed to a nearby hospital and rushed to the O.R. for emergency surgery. Upon seeing the boy's face when preparing for surgery, the doctor declares, "I can't operate on this boy... He's my son!!" So... how can this be?
I asked this "riddle" of my family this evening - certain that the kids would know the answer right away, and would look at me as though I had lost my marbles for characterizing it as a "trick question". I was pretty sure my husband wouldn't get it right away.
Imagine my disappointment when my younger children guessed things like, "The father wasn't really dead!!" "The father crawled into the helicopter...". Sigh.
My husband (perhaps predictably) said, "It had to be his step-father."
So the bad news is obvious. The good news, however, is that both my 9-year-olds and my 13-year-old (quizzed independently) immediately came up with, "The parents are gay, and the surgeon is the dad's husband!"
We're so modern!
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