Me: “can you hand me the salad bowl”
Wife: “yes”
*long awkward pause*
Me: “WILL you hand me the salad bowl?”

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@steve I reflexively called my mom “dude” a few times as a teen and she took it in the spirit it was intended

@elfprince13 @steve I was hanging out with some teenagers a few weeks ago and it came out that basically all of them had called their mom "bruh"

@elfprince13 @steve I said "how does that make sense?" and the 13 yo girl looked at me like I'm slow and said "she's my bruh"

@steve @regehr I’m happy to report that despite coming of age in the mid/late-2000s, I never called my mom “broski”, “broseph”, or “broskillet”.

@elfprince13 @steve "bronius rex" is one of my preferred ones but I never called my mom that

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