“DINNER went off without a hitch up until the part where people actually sat down at the table and began to eat. After that it went horribly wrong.”
“The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.”
“Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas.”
“The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.”
“ I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.”
“Mrs. Norris hitched a breath and went on again.”