"This is our father. He lived in New York for twenty years, so...

"This is our father. He lived in New York for twenty years, so we’re taking him back on a vacation."

“What’s your father’s best quality?”

“I’d say his joy in scientific discovery, and his joy of sharing it with others. He was a chemical engineer at Mobil, and when we were growing up, he’d always be pointing out birds and rocks and salamanders to the neighborhood kids. Especially that one critter that lived in the hills, and made all those little holes, what was that called?”

Then the old man, who had to this point been silent, said: “Trapdoor spider.”