Wife and three girls are out of town, so I have the place to myself. When this happens, once in a while, it goes a little something like this (phrase from De La Soul and others):
Last night, I left work late and what with no reason whatever to come right home (Weird!), stopped by a friend’s place for a late hang-out-on-the-porch. The first night of the fam being away, you go to a friend’s place, maybe go to a “restaurant,” maybe have some friends over to watch sports.
You get nuts, in a middle-aged guy sort of way. You might go to bed as late as midnight, knowing you’re not going to get awakened at 2:30 and 5 a.m. by a yelling baby.
So anyway, at the friend’s house, guy named Charles says:
<i>You got the place to yourself, Larry G? What’re you gonna DO?</i>
It’s like that scene in “Risky Business,” where the brilliant shaggy guy says something like, <i>O.K., so you played the old man’s records, drove the old man’s car, now what’re you going to do? Sometimes you just have to say, What the ****?</i>
Heck, you’ll see. You’ll see how a Dad parties down when he has a whole day at home by himself.
You just wait.
“Batchelor” Weekend
August 23, 2008 by daddywags
Leave a Reply