“Are they all yours?”
“As far as you know!”
I had all five of the younger kids in tow after school. We were picking up Ciárán’s new glasses which had taken much longer to arrive than scheduled. I had hoped they would be ready before the school year started to avoid having to take all the kids, but there are things you can’t control, and the timing of his glasses arriving was among those.
Entering the location where Ciárán had his eyewear prescription filled one of the receptionists looked at us and gave the above query. My response to her made her laugh and I thought that was to be the end of it.
Nope.
She made another remark about how many kids there are and I replied that I didn’t even have all my children with me. She was visibly surprised and asked how many I had.
“Six.”
“How did that happen?”
I paused.
“When a man and a woman really like each other…”
She stopped talking after that. The other receptionist was laughing the whole time.