Is that your final answer?

It’s been mercifully M-I-L free for most of the Christmas hols as M-I-L has gone away for a few days. However, she did give us one moment of despair before she went.

She’s big on watching “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” (even makes a point of video-taping it if she goes out when it’s on). Anyway, I had to make one of those dreaded excursion that involve going into her living room while she’s in there, with all the horrific potential for her starting one of those inane conversations which make me lose the will to live.

I noticed that WWTBAM was on TV and she was looking rather puzzled and asked me if I knew the answer to the current question that was on screen. The question was “Which of these is a flightless bird?”:
A. Cassowary
B. Crow
C. Coot
D. Cuckoo

I told her it was Cassowary. She looked at me and said “I thought it might be, but I wasn’t sure. I mean, I know the other three can fly but I’ve never heard of that one so I couldn’t be certain.”

Classic – what other possible option could have been right given the fact that she knew the other three could fly?

I had to beat a hasty retreat from her room to laugh with the proper sense of decorum.