9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for January 30, 2008

Transcript:

"This bill lists a long call from my parents' number last week. I don't remember talking to them." "It was your mom. She called me." "About what?" "My lip gloss, my hair, my cologne, how I walk and talk, my shoes, my posture, the tone of my voice, my conversation..." "She felt that if I'd attend to these little deficits, I might cause you to metamorphose into the ravening, heterosexual beast-son of her dreams." "How annoying." "It's been doing my ego wonders."