Slices Of Life

MOM: I’m trying to be less … where are my keys? … less … oh, I should mail this. I’m trying to … what? Oh, I thought you … oh here are my keys. Anyway, I’ve been trying to be less scattered lately.

AMELIA: It’s not working.

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AMELIA: Oh, I should probably get my shoe out of the freezer.

AMELIA’S SIBLINGS: We are not sure what should scare us more … that you stuck your shoe in the freezer or that your remembering that it’s in there suggests it wasn’t an absent-minded moment.

AMELIA: I stepped in gum. I’m trying to freeze it off.

AMELIA’S SIBLINGS: Oh. CONTEXT!