The other night, I was invited to one of my supervisor's house for dinner. Towards the end of the night as we were about to leave, her six-year-old daughter stopped us from leaving the house. She and her friend were writing "love" letters to us, the guests. So we waited in the living room witnessing these little girls to finishing the letter. "I'm done." After announcing to the world that they had composed the letters, she instantaneously sealed the envelopes skillfully by tucking out her tongue to allow her saliva to adhere to the sticky area of the envelope. The next second, she happily handed us a sealed envelope containing our "love" letter. I was giggling there. The special guest for that night, our collaborator visiting from another continent accidentally made a little exclaimation of disgust. I was giggling. It was not something surprising for me since I've seen my supervisor sealing envelopes or flicking pages of papers using similar way. Yes, she must have taught her daughter well huh? No, not really. I think it's more of her daughter learned too much from her mother.My dad is constantly making remarks about us; how that particular action of his eldest daughter or a certain expression of his youngest son look like my mom. My uncle once commented the way I hold a spoon was exactly as my dad. Now since when did we pick up all these from our parents?
Just today, a coworker of mine commented parents who are smokers are more influential to their children in picking up smoking later on. He himself is a smoker; he mentioned how puzzled he was when he observed a family whose parents are heavy smokers who happened to just smoke in front of their kids even when they were young. "The kids will take it as norm and pick up the habit later." Yeah we all learn fast from others, especially kids. I remembered when I was just a little kid, my dad kept emphasizing that smoking is an unhealthy habit. That concept strongly implanted in my mind. No matter how curious I am towards new things, I have never thought about inhaling just that one puff. Dad's words are so powerful to me eh.
With this whole topic brought up, I have a strong feeling that my Travel Companion's parents, either of them if not both must also share the same style in sealing envelopes. Why? Haven't you already figured out why I said so? I was totally shocked when I saw how my Travel Companion sealed envelopes when he was settling some bills. Much to my disgust, I yelled at him. I think I saw a blush of shame crept up his face. But to be fair to his parents, I shall confirm that with them.
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