Clean Language

I was in my bedroom. My 12-year-old who was doing the dishes yelled down the hall, “Mom, where’s the sponge for washing dishes?”
“In the dishwasher!” You know how you're supposed to run them through a cycle to de-gross them?
Nothing but silence came back. Then a quiet, “Oh, the irony.”
Did he say irony? Yes! I smiled. My new superhero, Irony-man.
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