Convention
December 31, 2023
Non-Veteran Friend: Isn’t that the Geneva Convention? You can’t leave a dead person behind?
Veteran Friend: That’s called a “dead check,” and it’s frowned upon.
Forcefully
December 30, 2023
Friend: It had to be removed and forcefully disassembled.
Expel
December 29, 2023
Eleven-Year-Old: I need to expel useless fluids from my body.
Me: We will be home in one minute.
Eleven-Year-Old: I need to pee.
Me: Yeah, we got that. As I said, we will be home in about one minute. Do you want me to pull over so you can go in someone’s yard?
Butane
December 28, 2023
Sixteen-Year-Old: If you caught fire, why are you covered in butane?
Cheerleaders
December 27, 2023
Man: Only in high school are there allowed to be butt ugly cheerleaders.
War Horn
December 26, 2023
Eleven-Year-Old: How about having a war horn? Is that bourgeois?
…
Okay, that’s pretty bourgeois.
Barge
December 25, 2023
Eleven-Year-Old: “Sounds like a barge coming through.” Is that bourgeois?
Me: Yes, barges are very bourgeois.
Eleven-Year-Old: No, I meant belching! Calvin and Hobbes reference!
Me: I know what you meant.
Father
December 24, 2023
Eleven-Year-Old: I hate it when my father is right!
Me: You must hate it all the time then.
Shaving
December 23, 2023
First Friend: Do you know where [Bartender] is?
Me: I think she’s cutting limes.
Second Friend: She’s cutting limes, and I’m afraid she may also be shaving the back of my head.
Pellets
December 22, 2023
Friend: We should have cut open the stomach of the owl. A six-hundred-pound owl, it’s owl pellets might have had something valuable—magic items, or….