son: "Lily made me carry the watermelon up the stairs instead of taking the elevator. It's her fault I fell because it was too hard to walk with a watermelon."
Veronica: "Aww, you should write a book about it, and call it 'I Don't Know How to Walk With a Watermelon.' Maybe it will be a best seller and you can use the royalties to pay someone to carry your watermelons in the future."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)