Scene: Target Check out line
Characters: Daughter and wife ( I was at school)

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Wife walks up to cashier.
Cashier: My you are a pretty girl. You must look like your daddy. [ implying that my daughter looks nothing like my wife]
Daughter: I don’t have a daddy. Mama!
Wife: She doesn’t have a dad.
Daughter: This is my mama, my mommy is at school
Cashier: Silence
The ability to make strangers leave you alone. Priceless.