Again, like last year, Jonah and Sandy load up Sandy’s 2017 F-250 truck with luggage, gifts, and festive food (an arrangement of cookies, dried meats, cans of nuts, fruit roll, and wine; three boxes of red wine and six boxes of white) for the holidays. They make the two-hour drive north to Channing, Pennsylvania, specifically to 393 Ross Street, where they will be staying at Jonah’s parent’s house (a two-floor Tudor) for the next three days (not including this evening): Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and December 26. God willing.
“Don’t forget my family is a bunch of upside-down ducks,” Jonah says. “All of them are off their rockers and mentally messed up. Especially my mother. Pam’s like a blizzard, cold and dangerous.”
“I haven’t forgotten,” Sandy says behind the wheel, driving northwar
