One time, my mother, who passed away in 1997, asked my to describe her - I don't recall why she asked, but one of her favorite sayings was "Weird mothers are more fun!" So I told her, to her face, that she was ditzy. My mother, who was not the most literate person in the world, didn't know what the word meant, so I looked it up for her in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
The definition read: "One who is affably foolish; foolish in a friendly way . . ."
My mother listened to this, thought for a few seconds, and nodded her head and said, "Sounds about right to me."
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Date: 2008-11-05 05:09 am (UTC)One time, my mother, who passed away in 1997, asked my to describe her - I don't recall why she asked, but one of her favorite sayings was "Weird mothers are more fun!" So I told her, to her face, that she was ditzy. My mother, who was not the most literate person in the world, didn't know what the word meant, so I looked it up for her in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
The definition read: "One who is affably foolish; foolish in a friendly way . . ."
My mother listened to this, thought for a few seconds, and nodded her head and said, "Sounds about right to me."