Monday, June 18, 2012

if lightning hits my car because of this, you're grounded

In the car, on the way home after a weekend road trip:

WP: Hey, mom?  In church, why do they call those things 'wafers' when they're really styrofoam?

KMS: (incapacitated from laughing, the kind of laughing that actually doesn't make any noise but causes your entire body to shake)

Colonel: (laughing) Those really are wafers, sweetie. Not styrofoam. 

WP:  Well, I'm just saying. Because one time I tasted one of those packing peanuts, and they tasted just like those things in church.

My laughter, by now audible, became convulsive.  I thought Toby's head was going to hit the steering wheel.  

I swear to God, you can't make this stuff up.