“I’m not going to do what you and Mom did,” he said.

We were doing homework, my son and I. A paper on inertia for his seventh grade science class. We, or I had been discussing how inertia is like an energy bank for matter. When a particle of matter was moving it stored the energy of its movement until it came into contact with another particle of matter, then the energy transferred,

“What are you not going to do? “ I asked.

“That thing you and Mom did in the pictures!” he said.

“Hu? I said,”what pictures?” (Mom and I never did anything under a camera, the whole idea grosses me out. )

He got down a fat photo album, of our wedding, then opened a page to a photo of me taking the garter from Deb. ”I’ll never do anything like that” he said.

“Sure you won’t “ said I, “I’ll remind you about this someday.”

He was thoughtful for a moment. “ I still won’t do it” he said at last.

‘When you find the right one” I said.  ”you will…”

“So what does inertia do for matter?” I asked.

“It tells matter how far to go” he said. “That’s one of the things I put in my report.”

“Really, “ I said,  “that’s right, where did you get that from?”

“From you “ he said.

“You can’t cite Dad” I said. “for some things…. “

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