Dinner time with lawyers and their spawn

The scene: The Wasylik family having dinner at the local Boston Market. Alex’s plate includes macaroni and cheese, broccoli, and apples. Mommy is trying to get a little protein into Alex by offering up some chicken from her own plate.

Mommy: Alex, you have to have a bite of chicken. You have to taste everything on your plate. You don’t have to have more than one bite if you don’t want it, but we have one bite rule in our family, and that counts even if we aren’t at home.

Daddy: Well, technically, that chicken is from your plate, not his.

Mommy: [gives Daddy death glare.]

Daddy: Sorry.

Alex: Not my chicken. No taste.

Mommy [to Daddy]: Thanks a lot.

Daddy [to Alex]: You forgot one important rule, little man. You were going with the intermediate court’s ruling [gestures to self], and when talking to the high court [gestures to Mommy] you have to go with the high court’s precedent.

Alex: [takes a bite of chicken].

*End Scene*

I shudder to think what dinner conversation is going to be like in another couple of years!