Bob Always Loved Elephants

(By Tori)
If I were to ask you what Bob's favorite animal was, almost all of you would probably say Wolves! And the rest might say Llamas! Such was the thought in our family as well. So one day we were sitting around Mom's dining room table talking about all sorts of random things. At some point we must have mentioned elephants. As was Bob's way, he had been sitting with us listening but not saying very much. Then out of the blue Bob announced, "I'VE ALWAYS LOVED ELEPHANTS". We all stopped talking and stared at him. Finally someone (probably me) said, "what? no you haven't ... you like wolves!" but he was adamant that he had always loved elephants and refused to budge on the matter. I suppose we should have deferred to him given the fact that it was his opinion but we all know our family doesn't work that way :) After that, it became our funny joke. At random times someone would break a silence by stating "Bob has always loved elephants!" It was one of the many ways guaranteed to elicit the little smile from Bob that we all loved so much.

So imagine our surprise when we were with Kathy Lalonde and decided to tell her about this funny elephant thing that had sprung up in our family. We just started telling her the story, starting with something like, "so we were sitting around talking and the subject of elephants came up ..." when Kathy broke in and said "OH! Bob's always loved elephants!" ....... ummm ... WHAT? Oh geez! I guess he wasn't kidding. Kathy totally had Bob's back on that one. Of course Bob didn't make a big deal out of it. Just gave us the little smile that showed he knew he was right all along but loved us enough to be patient while we figured out how wrong we all were :)