Effective this month, my father will no longer be a full-time employee of DLSU. They're keeping him on as a part-timer, but that of course will translate to a diminished paycheck. So logically, my parents have started talking about what to do with our house, because it will eventually be beyond our means. They've had a brief discussion with an architect they met through a friend. Naturally, all this talk about their future inevitably leads to talk about mine.
Pop: The scenarios he enumerated seem quite attractive, but of course your mother and I want to get a second opinion.
Me: Why does he seem so overeager even after you said you've yet to think things through?
Pop: Because once he starts taking measurements and all that, whether or not we decide to go with his proposal, we have to pay him for services rendered. For now, we have to fend him off saying, 'Hold your horses. We're not talking about the immediate future, rather in a couple years' time.'
Mom: By which time we hope you'll be o...
Pop: The scenarios he enumerated seem quite attractive, but of course your mother and I want to get a second opinion.
Me: Why does he seem so overeager even after you said you've yet to think things through?
Pop: Because once he starts taking measurements and all that, whether or not we decide to go with his proposal, we have to pay him for services rendered. For now, we have to fend him off saying, 'Hold your horses. We're not talking about the immediate future, rather in a couple years' time.'
Mom: By which time we hope you'll be o...