Nonno's Agenda

A couple of surprising events happened tonight at the Compound. First, my in-laws were home before the kids and I were asleep. Second, my father-in-law suggested an idea for my next blog post. Momentous, I thought, he's getting used to the idea.


I was immediately thrust in the middle of a discussion between my father-in-law and my mother-in-law. Turns out that my father-in-law is ok with my blog as a form of public arbitration. Over the course of the next two hours, my father-in-law said his piece and then my mother-in-law had her turn. It was an über-complex crisscross of careful passive aggression, drawing references from a span of years. I am always amazed when they have an issue with each other because in truth, I rarely recognize one of their fights as a fight. They fight peacefully. 


I felt like they wanted my help, but I didn't dare. I just enjoyed them both near me.