I'm not a saint or the perfect son. On countless occasions I've ducked their telephone calls. Why would I want to hear my mom talk about the gall bladder problems of somebody I've never met? How would my life be made better by listening to my dad's six hundredth lecture on all the societal problems caused by people wearing their baseball hats backward? My annoyance stems from a universal truth. As people age, their physical size shrinks while everything else expands in a scary way. Talkers talk more. Complainers complain more. Small idiosyncrasies blossom into bizarre screwball behavior.
Mike Leonard in The Ride of Our Lives, where NBC journalist took a cross-country odyssey with his feisty parents for a month.
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