Parenthood

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Jasmine and Jabbar are visiting the houseboat for dinner, as Crosby measures the boat trying to find a place for his piano. Naturally, Jasmine is cooking dinner, as Crosby has probably never used his kitchen other than to warm up pizza. "Just because people don't normally put pianos on houseboats, doesn't mean it's not a good idea!" he says. "I'm an innovator! I'm like the first guy to put a microwave on a houseboat. They probably said that guy was crazy." Jasmine reminds him that a microwave weighs 10 pounds. "And a piano," Jabbar chimes in, "weighs six meeeeellion!" Crosby says it's more like 600, which is well-within the carrying capacity of the vessel. May I pause here and tell a brief story of my husband's 40th birthday party? It was two years ago, and I rented a houseboat, as a total surprise to him, on one of our local lakes. Eight friends came from all over the country to celebrate with us for three nights, and we totally, utterly BAMBOOZLED him with our trickery. When I look back on it, now, I realize I worked harder on that weekend than I did on my own wedding. Which may explain why I had to have an emergency appendectomy the day after it was all over. Worth it, people! Totes worth it -- and it was an appendectomy the hard way, not the new-fangled laparoscopic way. No! Major abdominal surgery, and I would do it all again. I am not sure why they didn't take my liver out at the same time, because that's definitely the organ that took the most abuse that weekend, for real. Rest assured, though he may try, my husband will never top it. I turn 40 in three years (sob!) and he might as well give up now.Unlessssss.... Well, no. Nevermind. Where would he even get an elephant?

Anyway, Crosby says, if there's too much weight, he'll just hang out with tinier, curly-haired people, like Jabbar. With this, he tickles Jabbar into a frenzy, and my heart grows three sizes. Jasmine asks why Crosby can't store the piano at Adam's. "I can't really do that to him, Crosby says. "He's already storing my dad." Aw. Well, Jasmine says, if that's the case, there's only one other option. "You're gonna need a bigger boat, mate! ARRR!" she says, murdering the famous Jaws quote, complete with the wrong accent. "You did Quinn!" Crosby says. "And it's Ray Scheider's line, I think." Jasmine smirks at him: "Actually, it's Roy Scheider's line." Happily, she brings the dinner to the table, and serves it up. "This is really nice," Crosby says, and they smile moonily at each other, repeating about 10 times how nice it is while Jabbar chows down and wonders why parents are so weird.

Parenthood

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