Irritable Dad Syndrome -- Short Cummings Audio #13

You'll forgive me if I'm a little terse right now. I'm recovering from an attack of Irritable Dad Syndrome. Although you may not have heard of IDS before, it is a serious problem in this country. IDS afflicts virtually all fathers at some point. Fully half of the fathers in America suffer it at least once a week with a few unfortunate souls finding themselves afflicted daily.

Attacks of IDS are triggered by things in the environment which frustrate or annoy dads. For example, someone -- let's pick a hypothetical person at random, say an adolescent male -- might put a milk jug back in the refrigerator with a scant sixteenth-of-an-inch of liquid remaining. Technically speaking, this isn't really a quantity of milk as much as it is a film of milk! If it spilled there'd be no need to cry over it because the whole mess could be easily cleaned up with a Q-tip. Now why would anyone do something like that? Why not drink the rest of the milk? Why entomb it like a Holy Relic? WHY! TELL ME WHY!

Sorry. I got a little carried away there.

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