Favour

My lovely niece is a 21 year old Gen X/Y mystery.

I have gone out of my way dozens of occasions to help her out, sometimes at great inconvenience and/or cost.

Yesterday I asked her for my first favour (to baby-sit my daughter so that I can attend a party).

It didn’t suit and the answer was ‘no’.

Mmmmm. My problem is that my usual MO is to say nothing and give people say three strikes; she is one down.

But this is family. I might have to say something in a quiet moment.

God knows how the Gen X/Y will interpret my words…”the lips are moving but I don’t understand. I think it’s some sort of foreign language”

Which in pigeon text will look like…”d lips R moving bt I don’t undRstNd. I tink it’s som sort of 4n lngwij”