me [handing father stubborn jar]: i can’t open this!minz-papa (who is, for those who have not met him, vague and absent-minded and not the he-man sort of father,) puts a thick rubber band around the jar and twists the top off easily.
me: wah! you are stronger than i thought!
minz father [mildly surprised]: i use science!
(minz-papa 1 — jar 0)
(later on:
yt: shouldn’t it be minz-papa 1 minz 0?
me: no lah. jar 1: minz 0.)
Best of the Transparent Hummingbird