i love my mother

she was away visiting her sister in maine, and of course over the weekend made her sister's family watch the boston-yankees games. she bought me a boston sunday paper with the brawl technicolor splashed all over the place, and said: "do you know about these yankee hater hats? they're all over the place up there! you go to the beach, there's a yankee hater hat. you go to the store for milk, there's a yankee hater hat. your cousin can't even wear a yankees hat to school because last time the kids took it away and threw it in the garbage. what kind of parents allow their kids to learn that sort of behavior? AND [in hushed tones] there are shirts that say "yankees suck!" and they're not even at a game! can you imagine?!" i teased her, "well, did you bring ME one?" to which she said, wide eyed and indignant, "ARE YOU INSANE? I WOULD NEVER GIVE THEM MY MONEY!"