Title Varies Slightly

Husband: This is the third book in the series.
Wife: I just wish I could remember the first book. I don’t even remember the title.
Me: [Butting in]: And don’t you hate it when you go ahead and get the first book and you get halfway through the first chapter, and then you remember…
Wife: Yes! Then you [...]

“Please excuse [TVS] for being absent from school; she was picketing the Federal Building.”
As it turned out, Mom didn’t get to write that note for me, although we were both looking forward to it. For some reason, school was out that day? It must be a trick of memory, because I would have sworn the [...]