Our whole family gathered together around the rectangular table and begin to think how to get out of this difficult situation. Since our mom wasn’t there as before, I suggested that we should rope our auntie or my beloved wife into this business.
Hey, you should’ve seen how Uncle reacted! All of a sudden he springs up on his bow legs and starts pounding his fists on the table:
“I won’t allow it! I won’t give her to you!” He said, along with similar things flavored with peppery words.
His three nitwits grabbed for the knives and forks, as though they had taken me for a cooked turkey.
“Aha,” I say, “when my momma has been overstraining herself for the sake of the communal pocket, then you don’t say boo, but when it comes to your turn, right away you hit the brakes?!”
“I’m too weak for t
