Part 2 - ...The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
My uncle's house is very nearly a mansion. Six or seven bedrooms, secret doors, small sections of walls removed to be filled with opulent statues and commissioned murals. I was apprehensive about grabbing the handle to the black, metal gated home; concerned that Foad had somehow connected electrodes to it. Turns out that won't be installed until next month.
Right before dinner, Foad, Lena (his boisterous and demanding daughter) and I retreated to his overwhelmingly wood-paneled office while things were prepared. I could smell the gyro meat cooking as I punched away at keys to access my email account, housing the travel plans. Lena sat on Foad's lap, wasting sheet upon sheet of return address stickers for his business to no retaliation. He explained that my aunt might be able to get a discount from FedEx if I decide to ship my bed, desk and CD storage unit while selling the rest. Leaving me to drive up in my car instead of there being the necessary driver for car, driver for truck. I looked over at Lena, plastering a sheet of paper with their address in gold leaf and shook my head.
After dinner we again sat around in the office, Lena now at the helm clicking links for songs by the Wiggles and Barney to permeate the nervous atmosphere that I guarantee only I could notice. There was no way I would be willing to sell my things simply to save fifty dollars, I explained to him. He sighed and the cost-cutting discussion continued. Bounding from one uncomfortable territory to another I fiddled with the entry way to the secret passageway that lead to the master bedroom's closet; a room that I'm sure I could live comfortably in. Things did seem rushed, but why fight something that has fallen together so perfectly, minus an extra driver.
I stood on the phone with Budget, the rental company I had employed, to ask about any other options on hitching my car up to the truck. Turns out there were; I stopped noticing the left over gyro meat in the air and called my brother-in-law about driving options.
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