no such thing as a simple request

I think Alexander's goal in life is to give me a hard time.

About everything.

If I ask him to do anything he calls it nagging.

If I remind of something he said he'd do and hasn't he'll go into a rant of, "Do this, do that, have you done this yet, why haven't you done that, "in a poor (and unfair) parody of me.

And if I ask my son to be in a picture, he thinks I'll use it in some nefarious way. 

Tonight  I want to send a picture of a leather jacket I have and no longer want, to a friend who might want it.

"Here, hold this so I can take a picture of it."



"You're not going to put this on your blog, are you?"

"Why would I put this on my blog?

And here's where Alexander finds a way to confuse the phrase, "much ado about nothing."

"I don't know," Alexander says.  "You have a way of making nothing out of everything."

And with that,  I decide to post this on my blog.