An Ambulance Took My Mother to the Hospital—When I Returned for Her Medical Folder, I Found My Mother-in-Law Moving Into Her Apartment
Because by then Ophelia had apologized.
My mother had decided the story could be funny.
The person whose home had been invaded was laughing too.
That changed the ethics of the joke.
This may sound overly serious for a story involving onions.
Family humor is often where unresolved harm hides.
Somebody says:
Come on, it was years ago.