Today we chose the photo that will go into the Christmas cards this year. That sounds like an easy task, right? The easy part was choosing the event, Robert's graduation from Georgia Tech. Now the hard part. I had about a dozen photos like this one to choose from. I got them all together so that Ginny could easily look through them and select one. Here's the catch: she wanted to know which one I liked. All you guys out there know that is a loaded question that cannot be answered simply with "I like the one you like, dear." I am not one for wasting a lot of time in this game of "choose the picture" and I found that the best possible answer has (1) a selected favorite picture and (2) a reason for the selection. That makes it sound as if you are really into dealing with the "issue" of selecting a photo, which you are not. So I picked one and said, "I like that one because Robert is holding his mortarboard." Notice that it meets both criteria for a valid selection. To which Ginny replied, "Don't you like this one better where he is wearing the hat?" To which I replied "You are right dear, that one is much better." That was the end of it. Now don't make the mistake of uttering the closing statement without actually looking at the photo your (much) better half has selected. That is a dead giveaway that you don't care about the "issue" at hand, which you don't.
And so domestic tranquility was preserved in the Cross household, and they lived happily ever after.
