Agnes by Tony Cochran for February 06, 2022

Among other things, Agnes. You’re diversified.

IRL, if anyone saw those kids trudging through waist-deep snow, the kids would be in foster care while their guardians were under arrest for neglect.

aching feet are terrible taskmasters…

Not a bad observation, but it’s usually someone else’s damn tradition.

Of course, a lot more area to stub… ☺

With feet like that, I definitely would understand……

Trout can’t say Agnes “never” says that, because Agnes just said it. Maybe Agnes can “always” say it from now on; traditions have to start somewhere.

Agnes’s quotation struck me as familiar, but I couldn’t locate a prior citation. Googling “tradition taskmaster” of course led me to a few discussions of “Fiddler on the Roof,” since Tevye over the course of the play learns just how harsh a taskmaster “tradition” can be. “This is how we have always done it” can be a useful shortcut, but it doesn’t follow that “This is how we must always do it.”

“Say it. It’s a new tradition. SAY IT!!”