
Telephone
“What did you say?” she asks across the table. “Did you say cheese and muffins?” “What?” I laugh. “Cheese and muffins? No, I didn’t say that. I was talking about the car and its muffler.” “Oh, I thought you said cheese and muffins,” Mom says, and then she laughs too. Mom often mishears what we say then demands to understand what we are talking about. She wants to be included in our conversations, though they are mostly over her head. Her misinterpretations generate laughs and