While watching -The Amazing Race-, a show in which teams of two people read clues, participate in challenges and try to beat the other teams in a predetermined course around the world.
Me: (upon seeing that one team didn’t read their clue) You know, it’s easy to laugh at them now, but if we were ever in that situation, we might…
Kenny: (Cutting me off in a “This is final” tone of voice) I would never be in that situation with you.
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Watching a different episode of -The Amazing Race- in which teams have to find a hotel by identifying the famous woman in the picture.
Me: (squinting past the sunglasses on the face of the woman in the picture) That looks like Jackie Kennedy. Why wouldn’t they know Jackie Kennedy?
Kenny: Well the younger people wouldn’t know her. (Looking at me, realizing that he’s called me old.) But you know her because you’re weird.
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At Wal*Mart. One thirty in the morning after a long day at work. Kenny wants to get our stuff, get home, go to bed. He’s striding toward the Pepsi, not looking to the left or the right. I’m skipping along reading all the labels on the stuff on the shelves, looking at the Holiday edition Fabreeze.
Me: (After catching up with him) Would you know if I wasn’t behind you, or would you just keep walking?
Kenny: At this point I wouldn’t care. (Pause) Well, I’d know you weren’t with me when I got home and you weren’t in the car.
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