Daughter: Are grandma and grandpa rich?
Wife: We don’t talk about those things.
Me: [To daughter] It can be impolite to talk about that stuff but why don’t ask?
Wife: [glare]
Daughter: They have 2 houses. And one has an elevator. The other has a pool on the inside. I think that means you’re rich.
Me: that’s pretty solid logic sweetie. But it’s probably best you don’t worry about money. You’re well taken care of.
Wire: [still glaring]
Daughter: But we’re not rich.
Me: Not when I have to pay for all your activities and stuff.
Daughter: oh Dad!!!
[Daughter leaves]
Wife: You always do this. The conversation should have ended at ‘We don’t talk about things like this’.
Me: She was curious and she wasn’t wrong.
Wife: she shouldn’t use that word.
Me: what word?
Wife:!Rich. It has such a bad connotation now and with all this backlash you know.
Me: oh yeah?
Wife: Yeah it’s a bad word now. Just say wealth or they have money. Rich just isn’t safe anymore.
Me: What kind of world is it when rich … I mean people of means don’t even feel safe in their paid off BMW’s and multiple houses?
Wife; [Glares]
Me: Don’t worry babe. It’s nothing you need to worry about.
Wife: Yeah because we don’t have any money.
Me: I’m doing my part to keep my family safe.
String? As in in Stringer Bell?
Idris Alba in a biopic about Charlie Strong wasn’t on my bingo card for 2025!…..
But pretty solid choice if you ask me.
I quote this movie to this day.
I know it has lots of accolades, but somehow I feel like it’s not given its due.
One of my favorite comedies to this day. Very much ahead of its time and would be subversive again somehow with all this trans / drag backlash.
I’m sure he’s shaking in his lifts just thinking about the political implications of the … checks notes…. A democratic members submitted bill that won’t ever see the light of day or get any press coverage.
The democrats: just as unserious as republicans.