Married Female - MF6

About half the people have gotten up for an early breakfast on Friday the 13^th.  Your father-in-law went out early and bought a New York Times.

“What do you make of this?” he asks thrusting the front page at you. You are stunned to see, “World Ends Today!  Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”

You almost spit up your coffee and are coughing to recover.  He looks at you and slowly says, “Is this why we’re here?”

You know the jig is up as he knows, you know he knows you know.

“Yes, I’m afraid there is truth in it, but science is often wrong.”

“I beg to differ,” he says, “science is not the problem.  People use it for money and the power; that’s the problem.”

“You mean like anthropogenic global warming?”

“Precisely.  Billions on billions of Dollars were spent on that BS.”

“Yes, but think of all the wonderful things that were done with that money?”

“Like building windmills and solar power stations?”

“Yes, well….”

“Yes well they are all falling apart and were very bad investments.”

“You just don’t understand.”

“Like I’m too stupid?” he retorts.

“Daddy,” you say slipping into “lady guile gear” knowing he likes you to call him that.

“Don’t sweet talk me now, young lady,” he replies.

“OK and don’t tell me I look cute when I’m mad.”

“Aw shucks, ma’am.  That was my next line,” and you both pause for a minute.  This is not a joking situation, but you are both laughing.

“OK,” he says seriously, “What do you know?”

“All I can tell you is that the President believes the world will end at noon our time when an asteroid hits east of Mexico City.”

You are glad to see that your father-in-law is taking this calmly without argument or anger.  He has reasonable doubt, but appears ready to do whatever needs to be done.

“What should we do?” he asks and you just want to kiss him because you were afraid you’d have to carry this alone or have a frantic bunch on your hands.

You begin planning the day with him.

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