You can always rely on those who know you best.

“I told my buddy, John, about my vasectomy reversal: ‘It was microsurgery. They wore high-powered microscope glasses.’ His smart-ass response: ‘Of course he did...for you!’ But John had no smart-ass response to offer once my third child—my post-vasectomy-reversal child—was born.”

Smart men know paradise isn't a place you can see by the dashboard light. It's the destination at the end of a carefully planned route.