Who's a baby now?

We were in line for potluck at church and Big Daddy kept hitting me in the head with his plate (keep in mind he's 6'9" to my 5'6"). I asked if he was being crowded from behind and he said yes. I looked behind him and asked the young girls to stop. He hit me again. "Would you like to go in front of me?" I asked him. He said no. After the fourth time, I turned around and said "quit hitting me in the head with your plate!"

"You'd better knock it off."
"Then quit hitting me with your plate."
"I said knock it off."
"Then quit hitting me."
"I'm warning you..."
"Then don't hit me with the plate."

He then threw his plate and silverware on the floor and walked out of the church. Thus starts another stupid fight. He sat in the car for one and a half hours until we finished lunch and left. We now haven't spoken for 8 hours.

After we returned home in silence, I asked little princess if she wanted to go to Walgreens to pick up a prescription and Kinkos to get a print job for work and then to the mall. She said no, like she always does. I asked her what she had planned for the afternoon that she didn't want to go with me.

"Nothing, I'm just tired and want to watch my shows."
"Stores will have Halloween stuff marked way down," I told her.
"Will you buy me some discount Halloween candy?"
"Sure"

We ran the first two errands and called Adopted Princess. "Wanna go sniff perfume with us at the fancy mall?" Of course she did, she's 18 yrs old and not afraid her friends will think she's a loser for hanging out with me. We started at Neiman Marcus and ended at Dillard's with burned out sinuses, 57 strips of perfume soaked scent cards, and one bottle of Volupte by Oscar de la Renta.

We were just walking along, one daughter on each side, when little princess took my hand.

She took my hand!

My 20 days from being 14 years old daughter held my hand in public... for like 20 minutes. I really can't describe my joy. I told her how much it meant to me and told her I was giving her $5 for holding my hand.

"Really?"
"Really!"

She held my hand a little more and I bought her tater tots too!