Father:	the cat [cough] [cough]
Child:	Mom!
Mother	not yet, dear, it is not nice to interrupt, let your father finish
Father	yeah, let me finish, I can never say a word in this family!
Mother	so, what did the cat do?
Father	the cat ate the mouse!

 

A family conversation made up for this occasion on the basis of my earlier work (Varenne 1992)