The Tibbles are obsessed with the Titanic. I have no idea why or how this started. All I know is that we check out a lot of books about the Titanic and spend a lot of time discussing it. They’ve recently seen the movie which creates all kinds of awkward situations and conversations.

For instance, one morning over our Peanut Butter Cheerios, Liam said, apropos of nothing, “It’s all Rose’s fault Jack died. There was room on the door for him and she didn’t let him on.”

And another time, over lunch, Cade talked about how the ending wasn’t sad at all because Rose got to go to heaven and see all her friends and do you think we all go to heaven on the Titanic?

Now, as I type, they’ve YouTubed some sort of Titanic something. Some sort of video featuring that Celine Dion song that I cannot remember the name of. You know the song and you know it will leave your ears bleeding if you listen to it too long.

“Turn that down,” I screeched.
“Why?” Liam and Cade protested.
“That song is awful,” I said. “It’s so dumb.”
“Hey,” Liam said, turning around and pointing at me. “Don’t say that. That’s a bad word and millions of people died.
“Millions of people didn’t die,” I said.
“Well, more people died than survived,” Cade said.
“So, that doesn’t make that song any good.”
“You are making the dead people sad,” Liam said. “You shouldn’t make fun of the dead people’s song.”

I gave up at that point. There was no wining the argument.