Mother’s Day

I made the trek up to Schenectady this past weekend to celebrate Mother’s day and spend some time with the family before I start culinary school and will be stuck in the city every weekend from now until eternity. As I’ve mentioned before, my mother is one of the most unintentionally hilarious people ever to walk the Earth. (Evidence here)

Anyway, we were hanging out Friday night, and she was telling me about some sketchy stuff that was going on at work. She mentioned that she’d given a co-worker some inside information and asked her to keep it “on the QT.” I pondered “on the QT.” Tried out different things it could stand for. I had nothing. I must have looked puzzled, because Mom quickly began explaining.

“Oh, it means, ‘On the Quiet.’ You young people don’t say that though. I should have said ‘on the download.’ That’s ‘on the DL,’ right?”

“Right,” I said, howling with laughter. “On the download.”