The  Girl Who Forgot to Say “But”

“Dad, tell us how you met mom.”

“Well, it’s not how I met your mom that’s interesting. It’s how we stayed together.”

“What?”

“Well, your mother and I had been having some problems. A lot of them, really, mostly me. So we had broken up for a time. She would tell me, ‘I love you, but…’. And I wouldn’t let her finish.”

“Okay. So?”

“So one day, when I was at my worst, feeling sorry for myself, she said, ‘I love you’.”

“And?”

“And she forgot to say ‘but’.”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it. We’ve been together ever since.”

“Corny, dad.”

“Nevertheless.”