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[00:00.35]On one particular trip
[00:02.79]I was about ten years old
[00:05.49]I was rolling around in the big bench seat
[00:10.19]In the back of the car
[00:12.95]My grandfather was driving
[00:15.41]And my grandmother had a passenger seat
[00:19.86]She smoked throughout these trips
[00:24.42]And i hated the smell at that age
[00:29.38]I take any excuse to make estimates and do minor or rithmetic
[00:34.83]I'd calculate our gas milloage figure out uthless statistics on things like grocery spending
[00:42.07]I've been hearing an ad campaign about smoking
[00:46.48]I can't remember the details
[00:48.66]But basically the add said every puff of a cigarette take some number of minutes off of your life
[00:55.86]I think it might have been two minutes per puff at any right
[01:00.98]I decided to do the math from my grandmother
[01:04.57]I estimated the number of cigarettes per day estimated the number of pufs per cigarette
[01:10.01]And so on when i was satisfied that i'd come up with a reasonable number
[01:15.37]I poked my head into the front of the car
[01:18.46]Tapped my grandmother on the shoulder
[01:20.76]And proudly dly proclaimed at two minutes per puff you've take ken nine years off of your life
[01:31.38]I have very vivid memory of what happened next
[01:35.76]And it was not what i had expected
[01:39.82]I expected it to be plouded from my cleveress and my arithmetic skills
[01:48.32]Jeff
[01:49.58]You're so smart
[01:52.06]You had to have made some tricky estimates figure out the number of minutes in a year
[01:58.23]And do some division
[02:01.77]That's not what happened
[02:04.51]Instead
[02:06.41]My grandmother burst in the tears
[02:10.61]I sat in the back seat
[02:12.87]Didn't know what to do
[02:14.31]Well
[02:14.47]My grandmother was crying
[02:16.65]My grandfather who had been driving in silence
[02:20.01]Pulled over onto the shoulder
[02:22.09]The highway
[02:23.39]He got out the car
[02:25.21]And came around open my door
[02:27.47]Awaited from me
[02:28.21]To follow was i in trouble
[02:31.75]My grandfather was a highly intelligent quiet man
[02:36.16]He had never said a harsh word to me
[02:38.10]And maybe this was to be the first time or maybe he would ask that i get back in the car
[02:44.64]And apologized to my grandmother
[02:47.08]I had no experience in this rome with my grandparents and no way engage what the consequences might be we stopped beside the trailer
[02:59.29]My grandfather looked at me and after a bit of silence
[03:04.71]He gently and calmly said
[03:08.47]Jeff
[03:10.31]One day you'll understand that
[03:14.68]It's harder to be kind than clever