“I just think that maybe next time you have to give a speech or do something important, you should dress a little more nicely.” You know how there’s often that one thing someone, usually a parent, becomes convinced is the solution to all your problems? And even though the thing is so specific and trivial that no otherwise rational person could possibly believe it’s the driving factor behind anything, they still manage, with prodigious creativity, to find ways to make everything about it? This is Mom’s thing.
