His characters are no-dimensional, so flat that the extent of their worrying about whether somebody deserves to be murdered can be measured by Prentice's line, "What if she turns out to be a nice person?" Later, getting closer to the bloody deed, he thinks, "There's good and bad in everybody".
But now, thanks to MotherKnows, parents will be able to verify whether there is medical justification for their worrying.
A win would have taken Palace to within three points of second-placed Hull, but instead their worrying late-season slump continued.
But he seized his opportunity at Turf Moor with a well-taken glancing header as Burnley were once again punished for poor marking at a set-play and continued their worrying recent trend for throwing away two-goal leads - this is the third time in their last four games.
They will (usually rightly) say that the concerned person likely doesn't play games, and that their worrying is little more than the fear of the corrupting influence of the novel in the 19th century, the comic book in the early 20th or the "video nasty" of the 1980s.
Instead, before assuring parents there's no reason to fret (as long as that's true), let them know how much you appreciate their love -- even if all their worrying can get exasperating because you are, you know, a grownup.
