“Wetwo?” I said, somewhat indignantly. “Why would anyone put ‘Wet wo’ on their license plate?”
This is a question I posed to my friend Linda during a road trip years ago. We had just come up behind the car in question, and I spent a good twenty kilometers or so silently imagining what this license plate decision said about the owners (and admittedly, making judgements left, right, and centre).
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“Listen here Missy! I’m right, and you’re wrong, and I don’t have to listen to you!”
Picture it. A seven-year-old girl bouncing on a couch, screaming this at me at the top of her lungs. Yup. One of my most vivid memories from years ago when I was working in a group home for kids with severe behavioural challenges.
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Coddiwomple. My word of the year. And not just because it’s so fun to say. To coddiwomple is ‘to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination’.
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Imagine you are in a relationship with someone who is supportive, nurturing, beautiful, brilliant, and always gives you advice and guidance with your best interest at heart.
Now imagine that you typically ignore this person’s advice, don’t respond when they tell you what they need, talk badly about them (to their face and behind their back), push them beyond what they’re comfortable with and shame them if they can’t keep up.
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