Skip on to the next post if you’re not a geek. Otherwise, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Before she left, Mom and I were talking in the kitchen about various engineering projects, both work and the kitchen. Mom started talking about “demo” — “we need to demo this before Monday”. I was a bit confused, as she would be back from her trip by Monday, so shouldn’t we have a demo of the product ready well before then? I asked her if she had a business meeting scheduled Monday and she gave me look #371. It turns out that by “demo” Mom meant “demolish”, as in “demolish the current counter tops so her new high tech counter tops can be installed”. You know she’s in a bit far when she’s picking up trade lingo (I blame HGTV).
1 “You are obviously too confused to be coherent, but because I am an innately tolerant person, you get once chance to correct your manifest failure to pay proper attention”