After School Pickup
I don’t know why I said “I need to pick up my brother,” but my friend Linda made a joke about it. “Well,” she laughed, “I better come help, because he’s probably too heavy for you to pick up.” “Oh, ha ha. How long you been working on that little stinker?” “A couple months,” she was proud of herself, but then she went on, and on, talking about my brother, while I did the math. A couple months ago ment on summer, so she waited for me to say that again. She’s funny, but it’s hard to laugh when you’re the butt of her literal jokes. Like calling it the girl’s Bath-room, when there isn’t a bathtub, or even a shower. You get the idea, but she knew that, ever since last year I started …