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I learned, having had it used against me in a Scrabble game by an aunt by marriage, that a holder into which one places a handle-less coffee cup is called a zarf.

I looked it up and lo and behold, she was not merely attempting to snow me in the interest of her triple word score. It was right there in the OSPD.

So technically, I think this means that those cardboard finger-protector sleeve thingums that all the coffee shops have are zarfs. Though I believe most call them "cup-sleeves."

Last weekend I went to a children's museum with my partner and a pair of friends of ours and our friends' two small children.

While playing with the 5-year old member of the pack, the two of us interacting with some exhibit or other, a woman we didn't know marched right up and very snottily informed me that "You know, your being so overweight sets a very bad example for your child."

To which my five-year-old friend replied "That's not my mom."

The snotty woman retreated. I talked with my 5-year-old pal about the interaction and she said "Only rude people say stuff like that. I don't like rude people."

A wise little girl indeed.

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