out to breaky with Dada, Granny, down the street yesterday.
Jude finishes his grilled cheese, wants to play something on Dada's phone again. (While waiting in line on the waiting booth, I see he is racing around a car inside a track on Dada's phone, not unlike the handhelds we had as kids...)
"Phone", Jude tells Dada
"Not while we're out eating with people," Dada tries.
"Jude." I say, which he's heard a dozen-hundred times. "The problem with always playing video games and always wanting to is that you forget how to entertain yourself from within. If you are always looking for external sources of entertainment and fulfillment, you will always feel empt—"
"Dada? Can you please talk to her about this?"
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