A teacher friend had a graduation party for her daughter over the weekend. "How'd the big event go?" I asked her this morning as we stood in the hallway with a couple of other teachers.
"It was great," she reported. Good weather, good food!" Her face clouded a bit. "But at the last minute, my dad couldn't make it. He said he wasn't feeling well, and then yesterday, he actually ended up in the hospital with pneumonia," she added.
"Pneumonia!" another colleague said. "That's what got the Pope."
"That's not helpful," I snapped. "It's a 'think-it', not a 'say-it'."
Everyone's eyebrows shot up and we stood in uncomfortable silence, because what I had just said might have been a think-it, too.
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