Jake and Jenny Newland were watching the Olympics. "I had no idea Vancouver is such a big city. 2 million." Jenny said. "Yes," said Jake, "but they use the metric system there. In the US, that would be only 1.24 million."
When Jenny was working out later at Lumps For Women [1], she explained this to her fellow Lumpers. They assured her they were only laughing WITH her, but that was cold comfort.
Now that Clara Wembley has turned 3, she has permission to walk down to the Newlands to visit Franklin and Eleanor, their pot-bellied pigs. [No one else knows Clara has this permission, but she figures that since she is moving from the Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt stage of psycho-sexual adjustment to Initiative vs Guilt, she should continue working on autonomy and also sieze the initiative.]
When she returned, she announced to her nana, Kate Bates: "Wow, Mrs. Jenny is being really nice to Mr. Jake. She's even letting him eat supper in the back yard with Frankin and Elnor."
[1] For an explanation of Lumps, see "Zorro's Nana," Jan. 4, 2010.
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