That's Us. A Little Highbrow. A Little Mundane.
Those with children, especially children who insist things be a certain way or else, can appreciate these. The past couple of Dooce posts sort of piggy back each other and are laugh-out-loud funny:
From The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield--there's a great description of a minor character (the doctor's wife) in the book. It goes like this (page 104):
"The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it."
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