My second kid, at age 2, used to express strong disapproval by saying, "No like it very all." My mother thought this was hilarious and introduced it at work, where it caught on with her co-workers. Bad news from the higher-ups? No like it very all. The server ate the file you spent hours updating? No like it very all.
I wasn't blogging in those days and I expect this quote would have faded out of my memory if not for my mother and her colleagues. But instead it has stuck around as a family saying, and I pulled it out today.
Yesterday I learned that my dad is down with COVID. It will probably be fine? I hope? He is vaccinated; he is boosted. And also he is 75. He has been feeling crummy.
I am less worried about the idea that he will wind up in the hospital than about the idea that he is going to recover and then have some kind of clot-related event afterward. Who knows? Not me! But: no like it very all.
Then this morning I was texting with one of my big kids, who ALSO has COVID and who ALSO feels crummy. I did not send an all-caps reply (HOW DID YOU GET COVID ALSO DO YOU NEED CHICKEN SOUP I WILL MAKE YOU CHICKEN SOUP), but this definitely felt like an all-caps situation: NO LIKE IT VERY ALL.
My mother concurs. She texted right back: NLIVA indeed.
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