Setting: At the supper table, three days ago.
Cast: Emrys, Sara, Precocious Three-And-A-Half-Year-Old "G"
G: Daddy?
E: Yes, My Lovely.
G: [points at huge FedEx box that arrived two days before, and has been sitting in kitchen] When are we going to open your package?
E: It's work stuff. I'm sure you would find it totally boring.
G: [slowly, deliberately, loudly] Is it paperwork?
[E & S laugh until they cough, then recover gradually]
E: I don't remember teaching you that word. Who taught you that word?
G: [nonchalant, returning to her meal] God.
E: [aside] I hate it when my kids go over my head.
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