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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 37 of 307 knows that my cards are as close to my chest as is humanly possible for them to be without surgery. She suspects that my testimony is not genuine. And now it would appear that I am somehow subversive because I had not received the memo that all good church members are henceforth not allowed to use the phrase coffe table. I decided to have fun with this. "Kayla," I said. "If I called it The Dinosaur Table, would that turn coffee into dinosaurs?" "It never hurts to keep our minds away from non-spiritual thoughts," she pouted and took a sip. Nugatory Nephi did not know how the use of the common American phrase coffee table .could somehow lead me down the road of spiritual wreckage. I strongly suspected that Kayla was as wrong on this as she was on so many other things. But arguing with Kayla is a little like standing in the middle of the Colorado River believing you can get it to start flowing in the other direction, or maybe even just point somwhere else. A little. Bowen and Hayden guzzled their lemonade so indelicately it looked like they were trying to shower in it. Bowen yelled, /MCan we go upstairs?" I looked at Kayla for a moment to see if she was going to say anything remotely close to, "No, we've really got to get going." But when nothing like that was forthcoming'from her pinched lips, I said, "Sure boys." I almost wanted to add "Don't break |
