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[00:00.43]On one particular trip
[00:02.91]I was about ten years old
[00:05.59]I was rolling around in the big bench seat
[00:10.29]In the back of the car
[00:13.07]My grandfather was driving
[00:15.51]And my grandmother had the passenger seat
[00:19.99]She smoked throughout these trips
[00:24.55]And i hated the smell at that age
[00:29.49]I take any excuse to make estimates and do minor hythmetic
[00:34.93]I'd calculate our gas milloage figure out uthless statistics on things like grocery spending
[00:42.19]I've been hearing an ad campaign about smoking
[00:46.60]I can't remember the details
[00:48.76]But basically the add said every puff of a cigarette take some number of minutes off of your life
[00:55.90]I think it might have been two minutes per puff at any rate
[01:01.10]I decided to do the math from my grandmother
[01:04.81]I estimated the number of cigarettes per day estimated the number of pufs per cigarette
[01:10.13]And so on when i was satisfied that i'd come up with a reasonable number
[01:15.51]I poke my head into the front of the car
[01:18.57]Tapped my grandmother on the shoulder
[01:20.89]And proudly proclaimed at two minutes per puff
[01:24.85]You've taken nine years off of your life
[01:28.15]I have a very vivid memory of what happened next
[01:35.89]And it was not what i had expected
[01:39.95]I expected to be applauded ded from clecleveniness and my arithmetic skills
[01:48.43]Jeff
[01:49.71]You're so smart
[01:52.17]You had to have made some tricky estimates figure out the number of minutes in a year
[01:58.33]And do some division
[02:01.89]That's not what happened instead
[02:06.53]My grandmother burst in the tears
[02:10.77]I sat in the back seat
[02:12.99]Didn't know what to do
[02:14.41]Well
[02:14.59]My grandmother was crying
[02:16.77]My grandfather who had been driving in silence pulled over onto the shouder der the highway
[02:23.49]He got out the car
[02:25.31]And came around to open my door
[02:27.61]Awaited from me
[02:28.35]To follow was i in trouble
[02:31.87]My grandfather was a highly intelligent quiet man
[02:36.27]He had never said a harsh word to me
[02:38.23]And maybe this was to be the first time
[02:40.71]Or maybe he would ask that i get back in the car
[02:44.75]And apologized to my grandmother
[02:47.21]I had no experience in this rome with my grandparents
[02:51.37]And no way to gage what the consequences might be we stopped beside the trailer
[02:59.41]My grandfather looked at me and after a bit of silence
[03:04.83]He gently and calmly said
[03:08.59]Jeff
[03:10.41]One day you'll understand that
[03:14.79]It's harder to be kind than clever