While this space is usually used to recount the utterances of our younger son, Sebastian, today the quip is from our older boy. Nathan now 23, who is 6’4″ (he claims 6’5″), recently earned his Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, and one who finds his parents to be extremely un-cool.
In other words, he is a rocket scientist, and never hesitates to remind us of that fact.
He is home for the next few weeks until he leaves for Arizona to start his career in aerospace…
We turned on the tv and college softball was on the screen.
Nathan: “Do you think you could hit a softball thrown by a D-1 pitcher?”
Me: “No. Not a chance.”
Nathan : “Me neither. I actually think that I would have a better chance hitting a D-1 baseball pitcher.”
Me: “What? You have to be joking.”
Nathan: “There is just seems to be so much more movement on a soft…”
Me: “Stop right there.”
Nathan: “What?”
Me: “I lived through your Little League days. You had trouble, real trouble, hitting a ball off a tee…”
the drunken cyclist 