My Client Said Please

I often tell people that our two boys, respectively, are Attila the Hun and Alan Dershowitz. Everybody laughs, usually pretty hard, but nobody ever has any trouble figuring out which is which.

One area of cyclical jurisprudence where attorney Ian virtually always triumphs is the evening stay-of-bedtime cease-and-desist proceedings.

Tonight, I said to Ian, I'm going to go brush your teeth now, and he very routinely countered with "Well actually, Daddy, I said I wanted peanut butter, and I said 'please'."