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“Your son just asked me to go ring shopping with him!” Mom cried. “Excuse me for being happy, jack wad.”
I grinned at my mother’s colorful language, it never failed to make me smile.
She’d tried to clean up her mouth when she’d had kids.
Dad, on the other hand, hadn’t given a shit.
Which was why my sisters and I were saying curse words at a very young age. At least to each other.
“I can do it tomorrow on my lunch break,” she said. “I’ll just tell Saylor that I’m going out to lunch. Oh, how did her day go today?”
I told her about Saylor’s uneventful day. How two people had no-showed on her, and one had come in but hadn’t been able to stay due to a hurt child at school.
“That one she said that she’d reschedule,” I said. “She said the girl’s daughter fell down at the playground and broke her arm.”
“Oh, no,” Mom said. “That’s awful. Of course, we’ll reschedule with her. It’d make us look like dick bags if we didn’t.”
I agreed.
It would.
“You don’t work tomorrow, do you?” Mom asked.
Something caught my eye down the street, and I watched as an old car with bright green, shiny rims drove slowly past my house.
My eyes narrowed.
“No, I don’t,” I told her. “Just have to run. I’m doing that with Pace around five in the morning, though. So, I don’t doubt that I can meet you for lunch. Unless we decide to run for six hours.”
She snorted. “You can’t even run for two.”
That was true.
Though, at this point, it wasn’t that I couldn’t run for two, but that I hadn’t needed to run for two.
I was doing a half marathon. And I was already running it under two hours.
My endurance hadn’t been tested beyond that point yet.
The door opened behind me and Saylor came out, looking mutinous.
“I gotta go, Mom,” I said. “Saylor’s giving me the stink eye.”
“Uh-oh,” Mom tittered. “Better make up for whatever you just did to piss her off.”
“What makes you think it was something that I did to piss her off?” I asked curiously.
Saylor’s eyes narrowed even more.
“Because more than likely, it’s always the man that fucks things up. Never the woman,” Mom declared.
“Bullshit,” Dad countered from the background. “Your stubborn ass has had more than her fair share of fuck ups over the course of our relationship.”
Deciding to leave them to their bickering, I pressed end on the phone and headed Saylor’s way.
The car that was slowly driving past the house finally made it past, but not even it could sway my attention away from the woman staring at me like I’d done her wrong.
“What happened?”
