Yo Yo’s mom had a question for Channing. She said, “Professor Robbins I am working on my English. I know my Yo Yo is a very good boy but sometimes he uses words that I do not understand. For example he says often to me, ‘F - ck you, Mother’. Professor Robbin s, is that a good thing or a bad thing?” The next moment Yo Yo was tapping his teacher’s foot with his shoe in a cautionery manner. Channing Robbins answered Mrs. Ma’s question very nervously, “Oh yes, Mrs. Ma. Good thing! Ve—— - ry good thing!” Incidentally, five years later Mr. Ma wrote one of those booklets they used to sell at Patelson’s. Hers was entitled, “My Son Yo Yo Ma”. I had to peek inside it. Since I didn’t buy the booklet I have to paraphrase it. She wrote, “My son Yo Yo was always re spectful and polite to me as a teenager. He was a model son”. I think she figured out what he was saying.
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