After Sunday Dinner
Momma (slowly on her way upstairs): "Oh, geez. My ankles are hurting."
Me: "Why are your ankles hurting, Momma?"
Mel (with the straightest face): "Because she put her pants on after she tied her shoes."
Me (laughing like a maniac): "What? How does that even work?"
Momma (now sitting on the stairs because she was laughing so hard): "Look, when you get to be my age, it's hard to bend over and tie your shoes after you put your jeans on. They get really tight and it makes me feel like I might throw up. It's just easier to tie my shoes first then squeeze into my jeans."
Me (wiping tears away from my eyes): "Okay, so when you do that, your ankles become swollen?"
Momma: "Nope. It's just the heat. I'm going to go prop my feet up on a pillow now."