posted in 2025
Therapist: Name a really happy moment in your life.
Me: Meeting Grace
Blue: Meeting Mara
Buck: Meeting Cupcake
Duke: Meeting Sunny
Wives and girlfriends on the other side of the room give us all thumbs up.
Therapist sees them.
Therapist: Ah, I see. okay.
Grace: You can give her your second best answer now.
Me: Having dinner and hanging out with Vincent Price in 1964
Blue: Teaching our first litter of kids to fish.
Buck: Winning a poker tournament
Yoyo: Screaming down a 7 mile long halfpipe in the French Alps
Duke: Getting bass guitar lessons from Carol Kaye in the 70s.
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Therapist: Okay, Love…
Me:…is a drug and I need to score.
Grace:…is all you need.
Annie:…stinks.
Grindy:…will keep us together.
Duke:….makes the world go ’round.
Sunny:…letters in the sand.
Therapist: See, that’s what I’ve come to expect. My degree is useless here.
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Therapist: What’s something we say when we are sad and need to feel better?
Yoyo: I’m going to the skate park.
Grace: Deep dish, all meat, extra cheese
Me: Jeeves, another Guinness milkshake
Grindy: Will you please brush my tail?
Duke: I’m gonna go for a drive.
Sunny: Spa day!
Annie: Let’s fire this mecha up!
Blue: Jarvis! Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood and a bag of Cheetos!
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Therapist, to the great-grandchildren: Hello, children. How are you all today?
GGC: We are fine!
Therapist: And what have you been doing?
Spotsy: Daddy showed me how to hold a bat’leth!
Charlie: Mommy turned my fur blue, then yellow, then white and red again
Alex: Me an’ Tika played in mud wif Vicki an’ Uncle Duke!
Tika: Then we ate bananas!
Harry: Popsy taught me how to do Three Card Monte!
Vicky: After the mud, we took naps under a tree.
Therapist: Well, that’s…a KLINGON bat’leh? The weapon?
Spotsy: Yeah! It was a small one, because I’m still little. Daddy is an Honored Warrior!
Therapist:…..Umm, okay. And Charlie, you’re okay?
Charlie: Yeah. It was fun being different colors!
Therapist: Harry, do you know what Three Card Monte is?
Harry: Yes, it’s a way to skin the rubes out of their money.
Therapist: I think I need to go have…
The Guinea Pigs Three come flying through a portal on hoverboards.
Therapist: ACK!
Hermione: Hi! Guess who just came down from the high mountains with Uncle Yoee and Auntie Grins?
Luna: THESE GIRLS DID!
Gini: Jeeves, can we please have some juice?
Therapist: I’ll have a juice too, Jeeves. With vodka.