"Really? You don't find it odd at all. In that case, maybe I'll wait til see if I get that pony I want for Christmas, then I'll call you Daddy."
It was the part that kept tripping her up, the way it didn't seem to faze him either way. It had to, one way or the other - she just couldn't believe this was the sort of thing one got ambivalent about.
"For fuck's sake, Eddie... have an opinion on it."