You Are Starting to BUG ME

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Feb 15, 2024 · 6m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

I brought him a strawberry. I know in hindsight that this was a ridiculous thing to do, but he seemed weak. I confess I also dipped it into the last dregs of white chocolate cream icing that had adorned that evening’s dessert. I was doing the dishes and straightening up when I saw him there, halfway in and out of the sink in the wet bar. I had thought him gone forever, but, no, it seems he had been hiding in the pipe below, awaiting his chance to try once again to integrate himself into my household.

The first time we met, I was emphatic about the fact that he…