With Not So Little Man and Super Fun in town, we decided to hold a get together at my house. As the day progressed, more people ended up becoming part of the get together. When people would call or stop by, I would invite them to join us. One of those people was Fat Girl.
He called wanting to go to dinner, so I told told him I was having a few people over for dinner and he should join us. “I don’t want to crash your dinner party,” Fat Girl told me. “It’s not a dinner party. It’s just a bunch of people getting together for dinner. Totally different,” I advised him. “I don’t know,” he said with hesitation. “It is not a dinner party. Very informal. I’ve got wine,” I assured him. Within seconds of hanging up with him, he was at the door.
Once the others (ROFL and his family) started arriving, and he had done a 8-oz wine shot, Fat Girl decided to do his own thing for dinner and left the get together as quickly as he arrived.
After we ate, we decided to play Boggle. The Leaver set strict rules for those of us who had ‘experience’ playing, “No three-letter words and no adding ‘s’ to the end of a word.” Seemed fair – I planned to find plenty of two-letter words and, if I didn’t find four-letter words, I would say them. For example, “More wine?”
Not So Little Man was in the ‘experienced’ mix and was doing a good job avoiding amateur words. Like The Leaver, there were a few words we needed him to use in a sentence. Also like The Leaver, many of these words turned out to be non-words. Until ‘snuff.’ “How do you know about snuff?” I asked. “We learned about it in drama,” Not So Little Man told us. “So, what is it?” Bruiser questioned Not So Little Man. “It’s a movie where people really die – it’s not acting,” Not So Little Man told us. “Yeah, but the people watching don’t always know,” Super Fun added. “I can’t believe you know this,” The Leaver said in shock and added, “You’re going back to public school.”
“‘Snuff’ is a five pointer,” I reminded Not So Little Man as he tallied his score. “No way,” he said excitedly. “No way you’re going back to that charter school,” The Leaver quipped.