He eats in silence for a while, because yeah, she's right again. As much as Tommy bitches and moans about his family, he wouldn't know what to do if they weren't around to bitch and moan about.
His eyes flick up at her at her last line. It weighs heavily with her, he can tell that much.
And he looks back down at his eggs again. He plucks up a strip of bacon and munches on it.
"I dunno," he sighs. "Hopefully he'll just wanna stay in so I don't gotta take him anywhere 'cause he can barely get around on his own as it is. Just turn on the sports channel on TV, set a couple of beers within reach, and boom, there goes 48 hours. At least on the weekends my kids can distract him. I mean, jeez, I have no idea what to do with him. Bad enough that his second wife died and left her millions to her thirty cats and his brother's in jail for murder--"
Tommy stops in mid-chew, realizing how that sounded.
"My uncle didn't kill my step-mom, by the way. My family's crazy but they ain't that kinda crazy."
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His eyes flick up at her at her last line. It weighs heavily with her, he can tell that much.
And he looks back down at his eggs again. He plucks up a strip of bacon and munches on it.
"I dunno," he sighs. "Hopefully he'll just wanna stay in so I don't gotta take him anywhere 'cause he can barely get around on his own as it is. Just turn on the sports channel on TV, set a couple of beers within reach, and boom, there goes 48 hours. At least on the weekends my kids can distract him. I mean, jeez, I have no idea what to do with him. Bad enough that his second wife died and left her millions to her thirty cats and his brother's in jail for murder--"
Tommy stops in mid-chew, realizing how that sounded.
"My uncle didn't kill my step-mom, by the way. My family's crazy but they ain't that kinda crazy."