Or you COULD say...

Jill was in the living room with the kids, trying to teach them to be human beings. She had Sophia ask Griffon about his day. Then she said, "OK, now you say, 'that's very interesting, it sounds like you had fun.'"

Beside me in the kitchen, Mom says, "Or you could just say, 'You had a busy day!' and then you wouldn't have to LIE."

She said this in exactly the tone she has used with me on countless occasions. In effect, she had just told me that she generally doesn't give a damn about me or my activities. I felt like Winston Smith holding the scrap of paper proving that the government was systematically faking the past. I had always known it, but here she was admitting it to me.


Freedom is slavery.