Filling it in

Papa was never one to rush a conversation. He would savor each slow pause and have the hope that he had captivated his audience long enough to build up some suspense or relish a thought on how things were set on teh mental state of drama and storytelling.

We eventaully caught onto the whole idea of what he was going to say (because we had so often heard it before), and would just fill in the blank for him and beat him to the thought so we could rush along his idea nad get on to more conversation or have more of us fill in the story with our own little twist or side note.

Now, even when we are not quite sure exactly what he is going to say we think we are so smart and start filling in the converstation for him. He takes it rather in good stride, but things have started to change now. My brother Christians joke when ever papa was about to say a little joke of his own:
"There once was this man-"
Ha hah ah ha hahahahaha!- that is soooo funny! would interupt Christian.

It would happen on many anothe various sentance.

Papa: " I have got to go-"

Chrsitian: "really?"

Well now Papa is better at speeding thinsg along and we are hopefully a little more polite and patient. Good language skills can often fall apart when we are in the casual circle of family alone for too long.