Fremont, CA, Thanksgiving
"Last Thanksgiving was a disaster. My parents invited Dorothy-Lynn's family over, and it was just unbelievable. There were all these guys walking around with gold chains and tattoos, and they put their feet up on the furniture like they owned the place. Get this. One guy was there with his three children. From three different women. And the three women were there too. I walk into my Dad's living room, and there's this clown with his feet up on my Dad's favorite chair, with a bowl of sunflower seeds, and he's spitting the seeds all over the floor. I almost lost it. And another guy went off about how the Coast Guard doesn't do any thing for the military and that they're a bunch of cowards, and he's telling this to my Dad who was in the Coast Guard and saw combat in the Pacific during World War II."
"What did your Dad do?"
"He just walked into another room."