So all of us have topics that kind of set us off, right? Stuff that comes up about which, if you're so fortunate as to have them, your kids say, "Oh, Mom. Don't bother with that. It just upsets you." And then the next 14 times you mention this thing that bugs you, they patiently say, "Mom, promise me you won't bother with that again, ok?" And then you promise and of course something else incredibly irritating related to the thing that sets you off happens, which, naturally, makes you complain for the 15th time, at which point even your son-in-law starts screaming, saying, "You promised us you wouldn't get involved with that again..." And on it goes. I'm certain there's not a single other parent reading whose kids have ever reprimanded her/im in this way.
Sooooo....in the 16th conversation, my very capable techie-foodie-amazingly sensible daughter says, "That settles it. Time for the parental controls. I'm going to fix your computer so that any time this [unmentionable, unspeakably aggravating] topic comes up, it will be screened out." Which is why I can't even type the word that peeves me so, because if I do type it, like here, , this is what happens.
Since I first posted this on Sunday, I've had several conversations with people asking WHAT IS IT? How about posting your conjectures below? Careful readers of the previous paragraph, no cheating!
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