"Don't do it, capitán," Mommy calls out to the driver in the F150 trying to cut her off on our way back from the county fair. "What's capitán, Mommy?" asks Chago.
"It's a captain, son, like of a ship," she says. "Do you know what jefe is?"
"No," he replies.
"It means boss," she says. "Do you know what a boss is?"
"Yes," he says with a smile, "It's like you, you're the boss of Comcast."
"Welllllll..." she begins.
"And like Saia," he continues, ignoring Mommy, and now tossing his sister a sneer, "She thinks she's the boss of me."
And without looking up from her book, she calmly but firmly interjects, "But that's just 'cause I am."
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