9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for March 26, 2002

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Gran: "I don't know why you two have to take offense...I was only offering some advice on chewing your food." Juliette: "Why can't you just speak to us as though we're sentient adults, and excise the baby talk?" Gran: "I once knew of a man whose habit of swallowing big chunks of incompletely masticated food ultimately ruptured his esophagus, necessitating emergency surgical removal of a turkey sandwich from his thoracic cavity." Juliette: "Better yet...Talk to us as if we're babies."