Covid-19 has caused no lack of changes in how we live, but today has brought one of the most astonishing. The normally isolationist Curmudgeon High Council is considering mass adoption of members into an extended family. This shocking development has been caused by the re-opening of their beloved Tennis Courts to families only.
Unfortunately, this deceptively-brilliant strategy has already run into some sticky problems. First, there is the small problem of who is adopting whom, since outside of Oliver Twist, loosely-associated gangs of cronies are not considered legal families. Needless to say, all the members of the Curmudgeon High Council assumed they would be the one to “wear the pants in the family.” None were too keen about having to claim “I’m someone else’s dependent” on their tax return, let alone be told when they have to go to bed and how much time they can waste watching old tennis matches on TV.
Second, when they approached the County Registrar with their proposal, they were informed that they’d of course need to live in the same house. Everyone knows that it isn’t possible to fit the egos of two curmudgeons in the same house at the same time, so that turned out to be another thorny issue.
If they can figure out a way to work through these seemingly-insurmountable problems, then their novel approach to getting out and about during the stay-at-home order might well catch on.
The Curmudgeon Quarterly 