“Don’t be an idiot! How do you suppose you were born?”
“But my parents were married.”
You tear your hair. How can one be reasonable with such stupidity?
“That hasn’t any physiological significance!”
“I don’t——”
“You COULD have been born without their being married, couldn’t you?”
She considers, then smiles triumphantly. “Not with my parents!”
“But what the hell did you and your friends talk about at school?”
“Well, some of the girls might have been fast. They wouldn’t say, of course.”
“A lot more than you suspected were probably ‘fast.’”