Grade A

I was talking with a relative.  I mentioned a conversation that I thought was funny.

My boyfriend, who works in wood, knew that I am interested in working in woodcut or linoleum cut prints.  He happened to have a very, very nice piece of pine, so he gave it to me.

“It’s Grade A”, he said.  ”Oh,” I replied.  Sounded good to me!  ”What does that mean?”  ”Well,” he said, “It’s knot-free.”

“Oh! How much is it, then?”

There was a bit of a silence.

“KNOT free…not NOT free.”

And so, we introduce the wood-inclined to the wood-ignorant.  How do you do?  :D

This has been a source of good humor for us both, since.