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Thanksgiving Day taxed my cousin Craig's capacities. This two-year-old underwent the indignity of well-meaning relatives who pinched his cheeks, tickled his tummy and cooed over how much he had grown. He was forced to sit still, eat with utensils and converse without interrupting, contradicting or yelling at other people--more than many adults, let alone young children could handle...
...poor boy was sitting at the kitchen counter, his lower lip drooped down to his chin. Not even the tempting odor of macaroni and cheese could arouse Craig from the coma induced by his sustained mental exertion. I resorted to extreme tactics and flicked water onto my near-catatonic cousin. At first he crinkled his nose and mouth and drew back. But when he saw my smile a devilish gleam entered his eyes. He broke into a sunny smile, grabbed a fistful of cheesy macaroni and launched it towards my frozen grin...
...sticky aftermath, I spent hours removing dairy products from the floor, the kitchen cabinet and my aunt's aloe plant. But I did not regret introducing my cousin to the concept of the food fight, despite his mother's insistence that I had undone years of careful training. I acknowledge the obvious value of cleanliness, but everyone needs to let loose once in a while. Despite 20 years of "civilized living," I can understand the bright gleam in Craig's eyes that precipitated the macaroni explosion--I ran in Primal Scream...
...tried to defend our pop scene to my 17 year-old cousin in India. But she started to wear me down. "It's not that bad. We've got a few good songs here and there," I argued. "Yeah, but the videos that are on your countdowns are filled with a bunch of whores." "Huh?" "We get the U.S. Total Request Live every week and you never vote for the good videos. Actually, the videos you choose degrade women. And you call yourself the leaders of the industrial world...." And now that I think about it, I have to concur...
Einstein, meanwhile, had taken up with a divorced cousin, Elsa, who jovially cooked and cared for him during the emotionally draining months when he made the intellectual leaps that finally resulted in general relativity. Unlike Mileva, she gave him personal space, and not just for science. As he became more widely known, ladies swarmed around him like moonlets circling a planet. These dalliances irritated Elsa, who eventually became his wife, but as she told a friend, a genius of her husband's kind could never be irreproachable in every respect...