10,000 rules

So yesterday as Chris was getting ready to go back to work, there was a huge blowup between the boys, and Chris went downstairs to handle the Daniel side of it. At one point, Daniel complained bitterly that he had about 10,000 rules he has to follow and Justin only had 1.

Chris: Well, that's not true. In fact, if you can settle yourself down, you'll be able to figure out that you don't have 10,000 rules to follow.
Daniel: Yes I do!!
Chris: No, you don't.
Daniel: Yes I DO!!
(cut extensive back and forth here)
Chris: Why don't you try to come up with a list of the rules you have to follow?
Daniel: NO!
Chris: I can guarantee you it's less than 10,000.
Daniel: No it's not!
Chris: Make up a list, then.
Daniel: I don't want to.
Chris: You can't lose, on this one. Because either you'll discover that it's not 10,000, or you'll discover that it is, and I'm wrong, and I'll go through and get rid of some of them because 10,000 is too many.
Daniel: (after a pause) I don't want to.
Chris: Why not?
Daniel: (grumpily) Because... if I do, I'll probably realize you're a good daddy and you're a psychiatrist and... you're probably right.
Chris: I think you're already there.
Daniel: Yeah.
Chris: (small pause) You wanna go back upstairs?
Daniel: Yeah, I guess...

Four Things About Meme

From tudorlady:

Four jobs you've never had in your life:
Minister
Stunt double
Avon saleslady
Fashion consultant

Four movies you don't want to watch even once:
Kill Bill
Dumb and Dumber
Almost anything with Claude Van Dam, and that includes his gay porn
Anything with Paris Hilton in it

Four places you've never lived:
New York
Paris
London (England) - I lived in the Ontario version
Iqaluit

Four TV shows you've never watched:
Anything with Paris Hilton in it
Monday Night Football
The Bachelor
Touched By An Angel

Four places you've never been on vacation:
Guadalajara
Tahiti
Ireland
Korea

Four of your least favorite foods:
Veggies
Green peppers
Brains
Kidney

Four places you'd rather not be:
Toronto
Mexico City
Algeria
Toronto

Four albums you can live without:
Anything by the Wiggles
Anything by Celine Dion
Anything by Rod Stewart
Anything by a motivational speaker


Edit: Yowch, just realized the Toronto thing could be seen as a very tasteless mocking of the recent shooting in Toronto. Nothing to do with it. I've loathed the city for almost twenty years. Nothing to do with guns or violence; it's just too damn big.