P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

Grandkids: Grandson: Small Witticisms

October 13, 2024

* We were talking about something I do regularly. I said “Most of the time…” and my grandson jumped in to complete the sentence:  “it never works.” A nice twist.

* I was singing the Army Song (When the Caissons Go Rolling Along) and mentioned there were four branches of the military. My grandson asked, “The people are twigs?” I apparently had not explained branch was a metaphor.

* He asked why hell was a kind of bad word.  I told him prudish people sometimes said “H-E-Double Hockey Sticks.” He then schooled me on reincarnation, which he clearly understand well.

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