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Question 1

You’re just in time to catch the end of the game.

I’m not really a baseball guy.

Come on, I’ll catch you up.

Sit it. Park it.

Answer 1

to sit down in a particular place, especially with the intention of staying a long time

park yourself

Question 2

I was just being facetious.

Answer 2

not seriously meaning what you say, usually in an attempt to be humorous or to trick someone.

“We could spend all our income on health care,” she said facetiously.

Question 3

See that guy? He’s the tying run.

Interesting story about him.

Question 4

The box says “12 and up”.

Question 5

Once, on a dare, he even boxed with an alligator.

Hobbies are very important for the men, whether you’re risking your life or flying little planes from a safe distance.

Answer 5

because someone has dare you to

Question 6

We’re just gonna buy some diapers. It’ll take just a second.

It’s Costco.

Yeah, which is where we buy diapers.

Since when?

Do you remember when we adopted that baby a few months back. Since then.

Question 7

Mitchell is a snob.

No, I’m discerning.

Official slogan for snobs. When we first met, he wouldn’t even look at me, because I was a hick from the farm in Missouri, and he is a big city mouse.

Answer 7

snob: someone who thinks they are better than other people because they know more about something

discerning: showing the ability to make good judgments, especially about art, music, style etc

hick: someone who lives in the countryside, and is thought to be uneducated or stupid

Question 8

He’s a little jumpy.

Oh, go figure, a teenage boy doesn’t want to hang out with his girlfriend’s dad.

Thought we were past all that. I’m all about taking it to the next level.

Really? Thought you were all about keeping it real.

Yes. But the whole point of keeping it real is so you can take it to the next level. Did you really not know that?

Answer 8

jumpy: anxious, worried or nervous, especially because you are expecting something bad to happen

Question 9

We’ve been married for 16 years, and you still walk on eggshells around him.

Question 10

Luke is gonna love that. He’s out back playing.

Question 11

Do you need me to get you something while I am out shopping?

That’s such a nice offer, but I think we’re good. Thank you.

That’s a really nice offer, but it’s not really her thing.

I’d love to go. See, you don’t know what my thing is.

I know what your thing is. Your thing is to provoke, just like your sister’s thing is to never come out of her room.

The thing about me and Jay is our relationship has always been stuck in that primal place where it started.

Do you see how she has to provoke me?

Question 12

It’s non-negotiable. You can borrow a dress of Haley’s again.

No. That sends an ugly message that I am Haley.

Question 13

Jay and I are buds, for sure, but with kind of invisible asterisk.

Question 14

Do you have to just stand there? You’re making me feel uneasy.

Question 15

• general store
• charades
• paper shredder
• confetti
• baby formulas
• piercing
• busboy

Answer 15

busboy: a young man whose job is to take away dirty dishes from the tables in a restaurant

Question 16

I feel you rolling your eyes at me.

I remember Mitchell because he kept rolling his eyes every time I would get a little boisterous.

Answer 16

someone, especially a child, who is boisterous makes a lot of noise and has a lot of energy

Question 17

We were playing charades, and I had no idea how to act out my clues. All I could think of to do was …

Answer 17

act out: to express your feelings about something through your behaviour or actions, especially when you have been feeling angry or nervous

These teenagers are likely to act out their distress by running away.

Question 18

I want to stop by the wine section first.

Question 19

Those cookies smell like heaven. Your own recipe?

No, I just throw ‘em in the oven.

And added the secret ingredient of caring?

Question 20

You and Luke having a good time?

Question 21

It’s just stuff with Alex. You know, kid stuff.

Ugh! Kids. You don’t have to tell me. My school is full of them.

Question 22

You know, if things had gone a little differently in my life, I thought I would have been a pilot.

What would happen if you turned the remote off and then back on real fast?

Question 23

I can see why you like this.

Question 24

There’s another trick called “threading the needle”. I used to do it with Claire and Mitch when they were kids. You want to try it?

How’s it go?

You go to the far end of the field.

Then I get a chance flying it?

You can’t go too far.

Question 25

You drove a plane into my face.

Try not to talk. I want to make sure nothing is broken.

Question 26

Alex and I can’t just disagree. She had to turn everything into a fight.

Sounds like somebody else I know.

I was never hostile though. I mean, this whole thing with the dress. Never had this problem with Haley.

Maybe Alex doesn’t want to compare with her big sister. Maybe she’s trying to create her own identity. Put her in a dress, and she disappears.

I wouldn’t give up being myself for even one second.

Sometimes it’s hard to remember you’re only ten years old.

Question 27

We should get enough for the next year or two.

Where would we keep them?

Where did you get that flatbed thing?

I am in the applesauce aisle.

Answer 27

flatbed: having a flat surface to put something on

a flatbed truck
a flatbed scanner

Question 28

I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy, and I dare you to not like me.

Question 29

Let’s go back to your piercings.

Question 30

Why are you fighting me on this?

It doesn’t matter if I dress up. I’m not pretty like Haley and you.

Question 31

That’s the painkiller talking. He’s a little loopy.

Question 32

I didn’t ask him to be there. He insisted. He took a chance. That’s what happened.

Kind of like the time you ran over his foot.

Question 33

I must be getting old.

Question 34

Maybe he tries too hard because you make zero effort with him.

In 16 years we’ve been married, have you one time told him you liked him?

Not in those exact words.

No. Not in any word. How do you think that makes me feel?