A Cleverly Designed Device

THINKING BEFORE I SPEAK

Texting with Mom

Mom: I am on 1 day MC. Can sleep again. So nice. Supposed to be the mad hatter today. You bring back nice storybooks for me okay and come back early to rest too? Miss you.

Me: Sleep well :) Have you read ‘How To Kill a Mockingbird?’

Mom: Don’t bluff me okay? It’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. No ‘how’. Try to bluff me

At this point, I am laughing my butt off because I was NOT trying to bluff her. I sincerely did not know what was going through my mind when I said ‘How To Kill a Mockingbird’. Or maybe it was because of this:

“200 pages into it and not a single mention of killing birds…”