Jho's Place

Mom's Messed Up (birthday) part 3

Soon it was 6:30 and my mom and dad were getting antsy, as they always do when he they are hungry, so I called my sister on her cell phone to ask what their status was. "You know we could not pick up Paul until 6pm," she said without he usual tone of annoyance. I could not figure out the tone acutally. So I decided to suggest that I wanted some food and so that gave my parents permission to eat something to. At about 7pm my brother walked in the door and soon Joy and Tom's two dogs, Gus and Wally, sprang into the living room along with Nolan and Joy following behind; Joy had a large pizza in her hands and Nolan's baby bag busting at the seems. And then she was gone. Paul said, "Oh, I think they are going to over Tom's mom's to give her the car, or do a car swap or something." The next thing I noticed was that Gus was just laying in the wing backed chair even though the table was now full of food. Not like any dog in general and definately not like Gus. I thought it was because no one was paying attention to him in all the commotion. Of course Nolan is now the star, so both my parents black lab Jake and Gus get a little stan-off-ish if they are not given a proper greeting. So I went over to pet Gus and sure enough he was begging with the rest of them. "Joy and Tom sure have been gone a long time," said my mom. Well it turned out they had gone nowhere since my mom peered outside. "The car is still out there " Yes, they were sitting in the driveway. Turns out they had a fight before they got to the house. Tom's mom did call and did ask that they return the car and Joy overreacted (so unlike a Howard ) and started yelling I am sure about how, "It's my mom's birthday and your mom can wait!" I am sure more than that was said, but how am I to guess except to make this a more interesting story, but it's already going to be long enough. Joy eventually came in without Tom looking throughly gloomy and not saying much. Every now and then she would bring some pizza out to Tom until maybe about two hours later he came in.

posted by makeisweet @ 1:15 PM