I can think of a probably disproportionately high number of people that I would say this about, where it's not what they say but how they say it, but no one more so than my parents. The way both of them talk just knocks me out completely. And it's made even better by their continued and wild enjoyment of it. One of my best things about my mum is that she can make herself laugh more than anyone else can. It's a good thing to be able to do. This is them driving through the transkei. My dad had been driving for ages, and then they swapped, and my mum was sort of settling into drivinng, sitting all weird and wriggly and uncomfortable with a very stiff high neck in her seat.
mum: "i've got a total horror of running over a monkey."
dad: "oooh jesus, it would be like running over a baby."
mum: "and then you would have to get out of the car and stomp on it."
dad: "and it would be screaming. it would latch onto my achilles tendon and bite it off."
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