a silly from my father

a recent news item in nyc is that a boy died from contracting antibiotic resistent bacteria. the post ran a front page article about it yesterday.

on another note, we had a gnat flying around over the table where me, my dad, and sara were eating lunch yesterday. my father kept going after it but couldn't kill it. he was really obsessing over it when i told him he should just leave it alone and eat his lunch.

he said "Are you kidding me? We have to kill insects every chance we get."

i looked at him confounded. he said "I know you don't read the papers, but I do. Every day. Look." and he pointed to the headline on the front page of the post that read "Two chances to kill superbug."

i had to doublecheck that he really believed what i thought he did. and yes, he thought it was a super-insect that caused the boy's death.