“Oh, we’re going to be in town for a couple of days at least. We saw all the wonderful things you advertised to do here and thought we’d take a few days of vacation here. One of the perks of retirement.” Mom’s voice was so casual that I braced myself. “Since your new assistant manager is starting tomorrow, maybe you can take the day off and show us around?”
The last thing I wanted to do – behind chewing on gravel, reading James Joyce’s Ulysses (I hated that book), and eating raw oysters– was to give my parents a tour.
I must have looked panicked because Daniel quickly said, “Oh, man. I know you’d love to do that. But you have that whole training schedule for Marcus, don’t you? I mean, maybe Mart could—“
“Dang. That’s right. And Mart is away in Virginia consulting with that new winery ou
