Over the years, my father and I have developed a bit of a
special relationship. Like the United States and the UK, this relationship has
probably been helped by the fact that we reside three thousand miles apart, and
hindered by a profoundly different sensibility of what constitutes correct
behavior in public. Like the United States, my father has a tendency to act
rashly and with great commotion when he is feeling threatened; he almost always
apologizes but just as often it’s a little too late. Like the United Kingdom, I
often take myself a little too seriously and feel very aggrieved when my point
of view is not immediately recognized. We share a
taste for scatological humor, but if asked would probably tell very different
jokes.
