October 11, 2004
Inmates
You might have to be related, or you might have to have been there, or you might have to be in the mood we were in yesterday, to find these funny. So be it.
Cell phone call to Matt.
“Hey, Dad, what’s up?”
‘Where are you?”
“In the Garment District.”
I hung up and turned to Diane. “The Garment District? In Boston? Where is that?” Give the boy a car and you never know where he’ll go. It wasn’t until Matt and friends arrived home late last night, and Hil Burgin walked in wearing a satin red jacket with pink sunglasses, that I learned the Garment District is a store that sells clothes from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
We visited with Kate and her parents yesterday. Kate had been to a Taco Bell and, still hungry, was in search of another. Maybe a rumbling stomach reminded her, “Oh my gosh, I have to write a paper about being digested.”
We drove home, had our dinner and then stopped by to see Flo, who continues to chafe at her new lifestyle.
“I was talking to Lois today. I asked her, ‘What do they call us?’ “
Flo could hardly end the sentence, she was laughing so hard, and she almost couldn’t get the punch line out.
Diane and I were both thinking, “residents.”
“Lois said, ‘Inmates.’ “
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There are more wedding photos to come, but I have to finish with Emily Hopkins's wedding pics.
Matt, Daryl and I worked yesterday to change the front pads on Matt’s Honda. We broke loose the impossibly tight, rusted bolts holding the calipers to the rotor, pulled the old pads off, but found the new ones wouldn’t fit. As in, they were a different shape. I thought about using my grinder to customize a fit, and Daryl thought about removing old parts of the caliper that were in the way, but maybe we both heard Matt’s thoughts, “Hey, don’t be fu*king with my brakes.”
We put the old pads back on, promised to get together next Saturday to finish the job with the correct pads, and then I took the Honda out for a screeching skid test. Just to be sure we put them back on correctly. They are, after all, my son’s fu*king brakes, and he was about to drive all the way to the Garment District.